[THIN] Re: SV: Selecting default printer
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:37:31 -0000
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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spriggs Jon
> Sent: 16 December 2004 11:27
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: SV: Selecting default printer
>
> Niclas:
>
> We've got a script which does that per OU, but it gets REALLY
> unweildy, really quickly. You'd be better off using groups
> and a vbscript, then you can almost dynamically assign a user
> to a printer, without having to worry about moving the users
> from OU to OU.
I disagree.
The structure of Active Directory, and it's very purpose *is* being the
repository for this information, as opposed to the legacy NT style thing
of having countless groups and printers defined in login scripts.
I use AD structure for printer assignment, and do it leveraging the OU
structure (have done for some years, now) so as a means to provide
printer mapping based on the hardware location of the PC the user is on,
as opposed to a *users* group membership.
What I don't do, though, is group printers all within a users OU - I use
the location field for the PC object to point to the OU where the
printers reside for that location (I also wrote a HTA so that our PC
maintainers can create / update PC objects in correct OUs, with
appropriate group memberships, and with locations fields pointing to the
appropriate OUs).
The point being, though, that AD should be the repository - that's why
it's there. With the NT domain model, you have no other real option than
hardcoding countless groups and printers within login scripts, but with
a directory, you now have better options.
Neil
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