[gptalk] Re: GP Preferences / Vista / Printers / UAC
- From: FlowMaN <flowman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:47:14 +0200
We had similar problems in our company, and I found the problem is that the
printer driver installation failing during logon. I tried to set the
following GP option and checked the "run in user context" option:
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/05/04/windows-vista-point-print.aspx
Working fine, now. :)
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Otto Horvath
[MS MVP - Group Policy]
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Darren Mar-Elia <darren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James-
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> Here is the response on this from the product team;
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> Apparently this is a known issue with a bug associated with it. It is due
> to a change that was made in Vista by the printer team.
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> Not much help in the short term but at least you know why…
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> Darren
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> *From:* Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:darren@xxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:59 AM
> *To:* 'gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> *Subject:* RE: [gptalk] GP Preferences / Vista / Printers / UAC
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> James-
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> If UAC is not enabled, I'm not clear why you believe the GPP printer
> install is hanging because of the UAC prompt? But, a couple of questions—do
> these preferences have the option checked to run in the user's context?
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> Have you tried enabled verbose GPP Printer logging? This might help narrow
> the problem.
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> Darren
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> *From:* gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *James F. Prudente
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:57 AM
> *To:* gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [gptalk] GP Preferences / Vista / Printers / UAC
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> Hi All,
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> For our Vista clients, we have UAC turned off, and users have all necessary
> rights to install printer drivers from our print server. Users can add
> printers without any problems either via directly accessing the UNC share,
> browsing the server, or using the windows printer management web page. Login
> scripts (vbscript) also will install the printer without any trouble.
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> However, if we use GP Preferences to install certain printers at login, the
> machine will hang up (seemingly indefinitely) while "applying group policy
> printer settings." I'm guessing UAC is looking for the OK to install the
> driver and obviously can't get a response from the user. If the driver is
> *already* on the machine, the printer connection will get created as it
> should, without any delay.
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> If the printer driver were not Vista compatible, users should not be able
> to install it under any circumstances. Likewise, if UAC settings are wrong,
> it should balk when attempting to install the driver regardless of the
> method. Not sure why this would happen.
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> Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> James
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