printer assignments for windows xp workstations within an active directory environment

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Published on 2010-07-20T15:22:48Z Indexed on 2011/02/12 23:27 UTC
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I'm using the following script to handle removing any old networked printers from machines and then assigning the propper ones and making one of them the default. This script is assigned to the OU the workstations reside in and uses group policy loopback so all users that login will get the appropriate printers mapped for them.

I tried to use the new Printer Manager as part of W2K3 R2 but when assigning the default this way I get an error that the printer doesn't exist so I'm back to using the script.

One flaw that I'm noticing is that it won't remove any printers that happen to be mapped from an RDP session (we don't see this everywhere but there are a few locations). Is there any way to enumerate all RDP printers and remove them similar to how I'm enumerating and removing networked printers?

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' Printers.vbs - Windows Logon Script.
'

RemovePrinters
AddPrinters

Sub RemovePrinters()
   On Error Resume Next
   Dim strPrinter
   Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
   Set colPrinters = objNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections
   For i = 0 to colPrinters.Count -1 Step 2
      strPrinter=CStr(colPrinters.Item(i+1))
      If Not InStr(strPrinter,"\\") = 0 Then
         objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection strPrinter, True, True
      End If
   Next
End Sub


Sub AddPrinters()
   On Error GoTo 0
   Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") 
   objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\printers1\JH120-DELL5310"
   objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\printers1\Jh120-DELL5310"
End Sub

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