Question : Deploy Printer Drivers to WinXP Computers

Hi All,

I am needing to deploy a bunch of Printer Drivers to all workstations in a SBS 2003 environment so that when a User connects remotely to a workstation, they can use their Local Resource Printer via Remote Desktop Connection. Presently, if the workstation does not have the driver, a locally mapped printer object does not get created.

I can use RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL, PrintUIEntry /ia /f "\\SERVER\SHARE\PrinterDriver.inf" /m "Printer Model" to install the driver, but ideally I would like to deploy this via a AD Security Group by adding a Computer to a Group. Thoughts to date are to either:

1

Create MSI and deploy MSI through Software Install of GPO

2

Add PRINTUI command to Logon Script, and let Logon Script parse group membership and apply accordingly.

3

Execute batch file for each printer (unmanaged)

Ideally I would like to store all Printer Drivers centrally on File Server and create security groups to manage deployment. When using the PRINTUI command, I noticed that even after using the /dd switch  to remove driver the entry would still show in the list of Printers by Manufacturer and Model - strange ..... one would think that removing the driver would remove from the list of printers.

Ultimately I will have to be doing this for multiple printer models on multiple computers - having the control to target certain computers and not all is required.

Answer : Deploy Printer Drivers to WinXP Computers

The colour display schemes in XP are reached via the 'Personalization' and are now part of 'Themes'