Deploy application in task sequence

I use SCCM 2007 R3 SP2, i have many packages (the package is functionnal)

I create a task sequence, in a task a create "Add, General, Install Applications" i choose "Install Multiple application" and define a variable (Ex.: ABC). On a collection (Ex.: A), in "collection variable", i associate a package with a variable (Ex.: ABC001, ABC002, etc..) NO PROBLEM is functionnal.

I create a sub-collection under "A", exemple "B", on the collection "B", in a "collection variable", i repeat all package (ABC001, ABC002 etc.. and DEF001, DEF002 etc..) in the task sequence a create "Add, General, Install Applications" i choose "Install Multiple application" and define a variable (Ex.: DEF).

My question: It's possible to define two variable, on "Add, General, Install Applications" i choose "Install Multiple application" (Ex.: Define two variables ABC and DEF in the same time)?

Thanks

Reply:

No not in the same step, but you could add a second Install Application step with the other variable.

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Reply:

Thanks

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Outlook 2010 crashes frequently

Hello,

I am trying to access Gmail via Outlook. I meet all the requirements for office 2010, but still the application crashes in between. Is it a bug in the app or there is some problem with my machine ?

Its annoying when the application crashes.

Reply:

It doesn't crash much here, so i'd say its your machine. Or it could be gmail. I've had problems with a outlook 2007 install and a gmail imap account.

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

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Reply:

Why does that surprise you when using an MS product!

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Reply:

Why does that surprise you when using an MS product!

What problems are you having with Office 2010 that make you so full of hate that you're crapping in every thread?

Nevermind - i see you're mad because the stpuid clipart button doesn't work. Why are you sending email with clipart anyway?

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

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Reply:

Why not?

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Reply:

I doubt its your machine, I've read several similar messages and I'm having the same issue which is why I'm on this site.

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Reply:

What type of email account do you have configured?

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

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Reply:

I have had many problems with Gmail IMAP accounts on several different email clients, but have never had any problems with Gmail POP. I would try setting up your Gmail as such and see how that works for you. You can do that by enabling POP in the settings on the Gmail site. The POP server will be pop.gmail.com on port 995 with SSL enabled. The SMTP server will be smtp.gmail.com on port 587 with TLS encryption enabled. On the "Outgoing Server" tab, "My outgoing (SMTP) server requires authentication" should be enabled and "Use the same settings as my incoming mail server" should be selected.

This information can be found here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86375

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Reply:

I have the same problem. I have 1 exchange account, 1 POP and 1 gmail IMAP. Everytime I try to access gmail IMAP, Outlook 2010 crashes. need your advice,
Thanks,
Lewis

Lewis

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Reply:

I am afraid that I have to agree. It crashes A LOT. I am going straight to my cable ISP. No problems with older outlook. The thing I hate is that there is never a response to any of the hundreds of crashes I send in with the frownie face.

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Reply:

This is apparently why nothing gets fixed...... Bad attitude Diane!

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Reply:

I am afraid that I have to agree. It crashes A LOT. I am going straight to my cable ISP. No problems with older outlook. The thing I hate is that there is never a response to any of the hundreds of crashes I send in with the frownie face.

Does this happen even if you start Outlook in Safe Mode? (hold down CTRL while you click the icon) See if this helps: http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook/tsol.htm#safe

What anti-virus software are you using?

What operating system are you running?

Have you tried running SCANPST against your data file?

Do you get an error message when it crashes? If so, what does that error say?

Does it ask you to send info to Microsoft when it crashes? If so, do you click "Send Info"?

-B-
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook

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Reply:

Two items:
1) With a new HD and super-clean OS, still having lots of appcrash prms.

2) Is there a newer Social Connector that V 4734? WHile MS wants it yanked to update, is this using OS uninstall, or regkeysl?

Thanks...

EGR

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Reply:

Hello,

I am trying to access Gmail via Outlook. I meet all the requirements for office 2010, but still the application crashes in between. Is it a bug in the app or there is some problem with my machine ?

Its annoying when the application crashes.

Hey, not sure if you have sorted this one out yet but I too had this issue. I found an article somewhere (sorry I can't find it now) saying that the social connector was the culprit. I have since disabled the add-in and so far no crashes (been about 2 hours now).

File > Options > Add-Ins > Manage COM Add-Ins (go) > Uncheck the Add-In Microsoft Outlook Social Connector - Press OK and restart Outlook

Hope this helps, if not you can always re-activate the add-in so no harm done.

Good Luck

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Reply:

Outlook 2007: Troubleshooting Outlook Crashes - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2000071

Jinesh

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Reply:

Dude, this totally fixed my problem. I had been running office 2010 64 bit beta for the last 4 months with NO problems... great great...

then i purchased the full released version for myself as well as my wife. like before mine ran great. But my wife crashes consistently after started... only difference is she connects to gmail, where i use comcast (and exchange for my work)

After i unchecked the social network (and other ____ she doesnt need) all crashes went away. Thanks for the suggestion.

And to all the people that have nothing of substance to offer other than blaming microsoft and the user... pound sand!

-Tony

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Reply:

had the same problem. It turned out to be trying to download images from the gstatic server making it crash. Went on to gmail online, deleted the email and now it works.

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Reply:

Did you happen to look at the message source before deleting the message? If so, did the urls have http:// or just //? Outlook will hang if http is missing (will be fixed in SP2).

It may also help to turn off 'download external content' - outlook won't try to load the external content. (This may be why i couldn't repro.)

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Daily Tips | Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook weekly newsletter

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Picture Library View - Thumbnails, Filmstrip, Details missing under All Pictures

Hi,

In our sharepoint site, in picture library view, Details , Filmstrip, Thumbnails are missing . Please find the screen shot below,

Kindly help me on this.

Smile Always

DAG IP address

Which IP should you give the DAG?

is it a machine IP?

i have created a record on DNS ie DAG name then pointed to it an IP that is not in use.

is that what is required?

Meshax

Reply:

The IP i've pointed is on the subnet range.

Please advise

Meshax

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Reply:

I was getting this error when i create the DAG

SERVER1
Completed

Exchange Management Shell command completed:
Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity 'DAGs' -MailboxServer 'SERVER1'

Elapsed Time: 00:01:31

SERVER2
Completed

Warning:
The network name 'DAGs' is not online. Please check that the IP address configuration of the Database Availability Group is correct.

Exchange Management Shell command completed:
Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity 'DAGs' -MailboxServer 'SERVER2'

Elapsed Time: 00:00:36

Meshax

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Reply:

I deleted the current DAG then used the command below and it worked, Thanks

New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Name DAG1 -DatabaseAvailabilityGroupIPAddresses 10.0.0.5

Meshax

Edited by Meshack KE Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:49 PM

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Problem while defining connection string in ServiceConfiguration.cscfg

I created the windows azure project that uses entity framework to connect to sql azure database. I have defined the connection string in the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg .how can i fetch the connection string from ServiceConfiguration file to connect to the database using entity framework?

Reply:

I created a windows azure application that uses entity framework to connect to sql database.I have defined the connection string in ServiceConfiguration.cscfg.How can i fetch the connection string from Service Configuration file so that it gets reflected in my entity framework?

Merged by Jiang Yun Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:06 AM

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Reply:

Hi,

You can modify the constructor in the data context as follows:

public MyDataContext()   : base(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("ConnectionString")

I don't know if there is a more elegant way to do it.

Regards,

Alan

Free EBook: "Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide" http://www.cloudcasts.net/devguide/

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Reply:

Hello Prateek,

Try this:

var connectionString = CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString");

I hope it helps.

Mario

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Reply:

Hi Prateek_!

You can fetch it by using RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(settingName) method.

Thanks.

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Reply:

how to connect if entity framework is used??what changes have to be made in designer.cs file?how can i change the constructor value?

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Reply:

Hi,

You can modify the constructor in the data context as follows:

public MyDataContext()   : base(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("ConnectionString"))

I don't know if there is a more elegant way to do it.

Regards,

Alan

Free EBook: "Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide" http://www.cloudcasts.net/devguide/

Edited by Alan Smith MVPMVP Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:55 AM

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Reply:

Hi, Alan!

Yes it is one of the way but the dark side here is that you will implement this constructor on each code regeneration. Maybe the better approach to move modified contructor to the partial class. But again it also will add additional manual work on context regeneration.

Thanks,

Alex

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Reply:

EF reads connection string from web.config/app.config, there is no elegant way to remap that to read the connection string from service config instead. Using reflection you can dynamically add config sections to the web config at runtime which could be read from service config. In a web app this could look like this in global.asax

 public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication   {    void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)   {   CloudStorageAccount.SetConfigurationSettingPublisher((configName, configSetter) =>   {   configSetter(RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(configName));   RoleEnvironment.Changed += (anotherSender, arg) =>   {   if (arg.Changes.OfType<RoleEnvironmentConfigurationSettingChange>()   .Any((change) => (change.ConfigurationSettingName == configName)))   {   if (!configSetter(RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(configName)))   {   RoleEnvironment.RequestRecycle();   }   }   };   });     SetupConnectionStrings();     }     private void SetupConnectionStrings()   {   string connectionString = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(Const.TransactionDBConfigKey);   // Obtain the RuntimeConfig type. and instance   Type runtimeConfig = Type.GetType("System.Web.Configuration.RuntimeConfig, System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a");   var runtimeConfigInstance = runtimeConfig.GetMethod("GetAppConfig", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static).Invoke(null, null);     var connectionStringSection = runtimeConfig.GetProperty("ConnectionStrings", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(runtimeConfigInstance, null);   var connectionStrings = connectionStringSection.GetType().GetProperty("ConnectionStrings", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(connectionStringSection, null);   typeof(ConfigurationElementCollection).GetField("bReadOnly", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).SetValue(connectionStrings, false);   // Set the SqlConnectionString property.   ((ConnectionStringsSection)connectionStringSection).ConnectionStrings.Add(new ConnectionStringSettings("DefaultConnection", connectionString));     }

it's a bit of a hack in particular since it's bound to a specific version, but that's another discussion.

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Reply:

assume this discussion is continued here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/b81a86e3-c8a2-4e56-bf98-ec98af392951 ?

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having problem while running the set up of sql server 2008 r2

while running the set up of sql server 2008 r2. i am having this problem

sql server setup has encountered the following error:

unable to generate temporary class(result=1)
error cs0583: internal compiler error(0*c0000006 at address 000007efe0d791fb): likely culprit is 'IMPORT'
error:cs0587: internal compiler error:stage 'IMPORT'
error:cs0587: internal compiler error:stage 'PARSE'
error:cs0587: internal compiler error:stage 'BEGIN'

ERROR CODE 0*84B10001.

Reply:

the problem is with the c:\windows\temp folder permissions , give full rights and try again

Ramesh Babu Vavilla MCTS,MSBI

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Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack SCOM re-released

Hi
If someone is using SCOM to monitor Exchange environment, then you can download new Management Pack for Exchange 2010.
New version has number 14.03.0038.003
Microsoft has released new improved Management Pack for Exchange 2010,
you can read more about it here:

Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack SCOM re-released

Regards

Remigiusz

Changed type Graham Davies Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:48 AM

Reply:

You may download new exchange 2010 MP for scom

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=692

More current version is 14.03.0038.004

Roger

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SQL Server 2012 steps installation

notes and screenshots about install SQLServer 2012.

http://sqlserverhints.blogspot.com/2012/01/sql-server-2012-steps-installation.html

http://teamsystemhints.blogspot.com/

Reply:

Hello...

This article is very useful.......... and keep it up.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Regard's | Ramu A

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Error seen while try to create a project in PWA

Error seen while try to create a project in PWA .While creating a project from the below

Project center-->New-->Sample Proposal or BasicProject

Im not able to create that is when i save the job it goes to Queue ......0%.....

What is the reason what is the solution for this

Reply:

Hi there--

Seems to be issue with exchange EWS URL. Please see a similar thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/aecb3f49-f760-4ac6-8970-dc4fd3c92b2b

HTH

If you found this post helpful, please "Vote as Helpful". If it answered your question, please "Mark as Answer". Thanks, Amit Khare |EPM Consultant| Blog: http://amitkhare82.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkhare82

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how to develop Aero Flip 3D action in web page C#

HI All,

i need to develop Aero Flip 3d action (In windows 7 while pressing windows button + Tab keys) using C#, i found WPF Application its working also file. Please see below URL

http://thriple.codeplex.com/

Same action i need to develop in web page... Any one help me Please, and i am very new to Web application So Please guide me..

Thanks a lot in advanced..

Thanks

NVM Prasad

Thanks & Regards NVM Prasad * prasadforum@hotmail.com Skype ID: nvm.groups

Edited by Prasad N V M Friday, September 7, 2012 5:56 AM
Moved by Mike Dos Zhang Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:20 AM (From:Visual C# Language)
Changed type Prasad N V M Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:11 PM It is not related to this forum

Reply:

Hi Prasad ,

For Web UI /Asp.net related question , please refer to :http://forums.asp.net/18.aspx

There has more experts in this aspect , so you will get better support and may have more luck getting answers .

Thanks for your understanding .

Regards ,

Lisa Zhu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

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Reply:

Hi,

Thanks for your response,

I am already posted in there also still not yet get solution for that, most are suggested to sliverlight , Css, Html5

Thanks & Regards,

NVM Prasad,

Thanks & Regards NVM Prasad * prasadforum@hotmail.com Skype ID: nvm.groups

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How to stop Windows from changing desktop after Displayport monitor is turned off.

Go to Control Panel, Power Options, Edit the plan you use by clicking Change Plan Settings, once here click Change Advanced Power Settings. Once there, go to USB Settings, open the menu by clicking the + open the next menu named USB Selective Suspend Setting and disable it. Once this is disabled Windows 7 will no longer adjust your display setup when a display is turned off.

This worked perfectly for me on Windows 7.

Edited by Blake87 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:28 AM Added last line

Reply:

Hi,

Thanks for sharing. We really appreciate your time and efforts. Hope your experience will help other community members facing similar problems.

Regards,

Vincent Wang

TechNet Community Support

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Error 0x80508018

Reply:

Hi,

1. Please provide more information with this error code.
How to ask a question efficiently in TechNet forum
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/33d4bcfd-9a20-437c-8a5a-26d0deb01131

2. The error code means ERROR_MP_SCAN_ABORTED, please ensure you have not installed other antivirus software on same computer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939359
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontclientgeneral/thread/8566d76b-b05d-4f8e-8195-efd727a8a055

Regards

Rick Tan

TechNet Community Support

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iacer crystal eye web cam missing

i was taken pictures with my web cam and a updater popped up telling me to up date i clickit and now my webcam is gone how do i get it back

Moved by Carey FrischMVP, Moderator Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:10 AM Moved to more appropriate forum category (From:Windows Vista Announcements)

Reply:

More often than not when a device doesn't function it is because the driver has been corrupted.

Try re-installing yours.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isnt-working-properly?SignedIn=1

http://captaindbg.com/how-to-update-drivers-on-windows-7/

MS-MVP 2010, 2011, 2012 Sysnative.com Team ZigZag

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Windows 8 Updates- SQL Server 2008 runs but, GUI is unstable while adding new users or making Microsoft account 's local copy

Yesterday, I installed SQL Server 2008 on Windows 8. Microsoft installer automatically downloaded required .Net 3.5 and finished installation. That is cool.

I am now running SQL Server 2008 on a Windows 8 VM.

By the way, you have to do a network browse only to get SQL Server instance and then connect to it. You can not do it in local mode as your virtual machine is doing NAT connection to the host.

My live.com account is the default administrator. Microsoft created local account automatically with my first name.

Then, I wanted to create another local copy of same i.e as PC account for my live.com account. Now, I had diffculty in filling forms and getting on to next task. The response was not uniform. The text was jumbled up and it was very hard to navigate.

Ironically, that happens only for user switching and updates. Has anybody seen this so far?

I request Win 8 team to look at that aspect for virtual and physical deployments Windows 8.

Thanks,

Sunil Sabat, MBA and MCP

DPM 2010 End User Recovery what to backup

Hello,

We are using DPM 2010 and backing up at Volume levels for our File Services.

Our End User Recovery is not working. What are the best practices for EUR? What exactly we should backup?

Is it Volumes like E:\, F:\ or at Share Level like Depart1, ITdata etc. Please give us some detail information.

Thank you

Abul Hasnat

AbulHasnat

Edited by Restore CVS from DPM 2007 R2 backup Friday, September 7, 2012 9:05 PM

Reply:

Hi Abul,

If your end user data is located in shares on your file server just protect the file shares. It is not required to protect the entire volumes that the shares reside on.

HTH

My Blog | www.buchatech.com | www.dpm2010.com
If you found this post helpful, please give it a "Helpful" vote. If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an "Answer". This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights! Always test ANY suggestion in a test environment before implementing!

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Reply:

Hello,

Thank you very much for reply. Our User's data are at the Shares. If I backup at the Volume level E:\, F:\, is it "End User Recovery" going to work?

Thank you

Abul Hasnat

AbulHasnat

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Reply:

Hi Abul,

<snip>
If I backup at the Volume level E:\, F:\, is it "End User Recovery" going to work?
>snip<

Yes, you can either protect a volume, or individual shares, and DPM will create EUR shares on the DPM server accordingly. If you have local shadow copies enabled on the protected server, then DPM EUR will not work. If you run "NET SHARE" on the DPM server, do you see the EUR shares listed ?

Also - make sure SYSTEM account has at least read NTFS permissions on the root of the protected volume.

Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Regards, Mike J. [MSFT] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Edited by Mike JacquetMicrosoft employee Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:11 AM

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Windows 7 and Group Policy Printer deployment

I am in the process of changing over to GPP's as well as beginning the testing phase for a Windows 7 deployment which will happen in late summer/fall and cannot seem to get Printers Deployed through Group policy at all.

I have tried VB scripts, the old style Group Policy Printer deployment method, as well as the Preference Mode deployment method for users and computers. I get the following errors in the event log and in the new "group policy results" wizard. Print Server is Win 2003 R2 SP2 32 bit. These same policies run fine on Windows XP clients via any of the methods I mentioned.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Group Policy Printers
Date:          2/1/2010 1:04:07 PM
Event ID:      4098
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Test4-Win7.mydomain.local
Description:
The user '21C18_HP5550' preference item in the 'OPS-Preference Test {42BA27ED-4C38-4B08-818E-FDC1E8D97222}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.' This error was suppressed.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Group Policy Printers" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="34305">4098</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>2</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-01T18:04:07.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1210</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Test4-Win7.mydomain.local</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>user</Data>
    <Data>21C18_HP5550</Data>
    <Data>OPS-Preference Test {42BA27ED-4C38-4B08-818E-FDC1E8D97222}</Data>
    <Data>0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Shared Printer (Name: \\FS1\21C18_HP5550)hide

The following settings have applied to this object. Within this category, settings nearest the top of the report are the prevailing settings when resolving conflicts.

21C18_HP5550hide

Winning GPO

OPS-Preference Test

Result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070bcb)

Generalhide

Action

Replace

Properties

Share Path	\\FS1\21C18_HP5550
Set this printer as default printer	False
Local Port

Some more info: I can install the printers manually by going to \\%servername%\%printer% and right click/connect. This works without fail. At first after doing some research I thought this was a driver issue, but it appears not to be, as I have tried many different drivers.

Changed type Troy12n Friday, February 5, 2010 7:55 PM resolved

Reply:

Does the user you were logging in as have administrator access to the server... ? Looks like a driver issue... or does the Printer server have the correct driver loaded for the server?

Alan Burchill http://www.grouppolicy.biz

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Reply:

The error code does indeed confirm that at least from the CSE's point of view the driver can't be downloaded. If you take the last four hexadecimal digits (the first four are just indicating the provider), convert that to decimal, then punch it into the following command, you can see as much:

Conversion: 0x0BCB = 3019
Command: net helpmsg 3019
Output: The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.

I know that's not offering a massive insight into why it's happening, but I figured it still may be worth clarifying which track to pursue.

Cheers,
Lain

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Reply:

Does the user you were logging in as have administrator access to the server... ? Looks like a driver issue... or does the Printer server have the correct driver loaded for the server?

Sorry, I had to leave early yesterday. Yes, the user account I am testing with at this point is a memeber of the domain administrators group, so is an admin on the print server as well as the PC. But really that should not matter should it?

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Reply:

The error code does indeed confirm that at least from the CSE's point of view the driver can't be downloaded. If you take the last four hexadecimal digits (the first four are just indicating the provider), convert that to decimal, then punch it into the following command, you can see as much:

Conversion: 0x0BCB = 3019
Command: net helpmsg 3019
Output: The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.

I know that's not offering a massive insight into why it's happening, but I figured it still may be worth clarifying which track to pursue.

Yes, that makes zero sense, as I can connect to the printer manually and install the printer/driver by going \\printserver, locating the printer and right click connecting. Which is the same process as what Group Policy is doing, correct? In doing my research before I posted, everything I found based on that error code indicated what you mentioned, that is why I tried just about every print driver under the sun, including the HP universal driver, but none of them work. I was thinking maybe I have to do some sort of registry tweak like I had to do to get my scripts to work (below example)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLinkedConnections=1

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Reply:

Troy,

Are you using the "Group Policy Loopback" policy on the computers mapping the shared printers? We had a similar issue until we implemented Loopback (set to merge). We have shared printer connections deployed to our windows 7 clients in group policy (user).

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Reply:

No, I'm not using loopback, that should not be necessary with the preference mode policies.

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Reply:

Hi Troy,

Did you follow the steps described in the articles below to deploy printer via GPP?

http://www.msserveradmin.com/the-one-reason-you-should-use-group-policy-preferences/

In addition, you may also enable the policy processing under the path [Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy | Printers preference extension policy procesing] for client computers.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Wilson Jia

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Reply:

Hi Troy,

Did you follow the steps described in the articles below to deploy printer via GPP?

http://www.msserveradmin.com/the-one-reason-you-should-use-group-policy-preferences/

In addition, you may also enable the policy processing under the path [Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy | Printers preference extension policy procesing] for client computers.

I had not read that blog before, but there was nothing in there that I did not already know. I am fully aware of what GP loopback mode does, and I do not need to do loopback to accomplish what I want. In fact as I said before, I have this set up and working flawlessly for my XP clients. I have not found any indication that I need to enable loopback for GPP printer deployment to function for Win7 clients. Another thing that is kind of silly, is you cannot set up preference mode printers which are shared printers, just local printers and IP printers, seems kind of silly they overlooked that.

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Reply:

Ok, just for shits and giggles, I tried this with deploying the printer via "computer" side GPP in the GPO and get similiar errors

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Group Policy Printers
Date:          2/5/2010 1:43:53 PM
Event ID:      4098
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Test4-Win7.mydomain.local
Description:
The computer '172.27.121.33' preference item in the 'OPS-Preference Test {42BA27ED-4C38-4B08-818E-FDC1E8D97222}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.' This error was suppressed.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Group Policy Printers" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="34305">4098</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>2</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-05T18:43:53.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1407</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Test4-Win7.mydomain.local</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>computer</Data>
    <Data>172.27.121.33</Data>
    <Data>OPS-Preference Test {42BA27ED-4C38-4B08-818E-FDC1E8D97222}</Data>
    <Data>0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

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Ok, so after about a week of off and on troubleshooting myself and posting here for info, I finally found my answer. If pushing out printers via group policy, in order for the drivers to load, you have to have the following setting enabled inside your GPO. Either (or both)

computer\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED

user\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED

I am not entirely sure if you need both halves disabled or not, but I went ahead and did it, it's not going to hurt anything.

Apparently there was also a policy for Vista in a different path, but since we never did Vista, this was unknown to me. XP ignores this setting, which explains why it worked on XP and not on Win 7.

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Hi,

I've also just come across the same issue when testing Windows 7 in our environment.

It appears it is the computer setting that needs to be set even though all our printers are deployed per user.

Cheers,
Bobby

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I've also just come across the same issue when testing Windows 7 in our environment.

It appears it is the computer setting that needs to be set even though all our printers are deployed per user.

It's amazing the lack of information out there regarding this stuff. It just goes to show you how few people in enterprises are actually USING Windows 7 and Vista. I am also amazed when I read webforums and people post about hundreds of users down because they did something stupid. DOES NO ONE TEST ANYTHING???

I am struggling now with my next problem. Volume activation 2.0. What wonderful wisdom Microsoft has a complete scam going where you HAVE TO buy OEM licenses when you buy PC's, and then if you want to use a KMS server, you have to re-buy your licenses through the volume license program if you dont have an EA. What a joke...

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I have been looking for the solution to this. Anyway, I am deploying mine based on user login. I don't find the setting that you reference above under the computer setting. I changed the one under the user setting, but that didn't solve my issue. I am running Windows Server 2003 R2 32bit.

Can you give me a better description where that setting is? or any other ideas?

I didn't have a "policies" section.

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This fixed it for me... i was haveing the same error pushing out GPP printers to users and setting just the

user\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED

fixed the problem.

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I know I'm a little late to the party, but I have this exact error. I've done everything that you said and still no go. My situation is a little bit different as I've had this working before and now nothing.

My current situation is a Server 2003 R2 x86 print server with a 2008 R2 x64 domain controller at the 2008 R2 Schema. All XP machines are getting the printers and the 7 machines are not.

We just recently put in all 2008 R2 DCs and replaced are old 2003 R2 DCs about a month ago and then raised it to the 2008 R2 Schema. Before that, I had absolutely no problem deploying printers to Win7 clients. I only had about 3 or 4 of them for testing purposes, but deploying printers to those machines was the easiest that I've ever done. Now that we have decided to roll out Win7 to everyone, I can't get the computers to get the printers. I would have never imagined that upgrading DC from 2003 to 2008 R2 and updating the Schema would cause this.

Any help you guys can give or just a punching bag with Microsoft's logo on it will help............

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I have the solution for you. Windows 7 reads the Point and Print Restrictions policy from COMPUTER.

COMPUTER\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team; Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1

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I had the same exact issue. It took me a while to find the answer and I think I did. Here is what I found:

1. To test it go to you local GPO (type gpedit.msc in the search box)

2. Go to Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Printers

3. Find a policy named "Extend Point and Print connections to search Windows Update" and Enable it

4. Then run gpupdate /force in the command prompt and see if all of your printers are installed on this computer via your GPP

5. If this works for you, then just Enable this policy at the GPO level so it is applied to everyone and it should work. It worked for us.

Good luck!!! :-)

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Sorry for the lateness in this, the forum didn't notify me when someone replied. I have tried all of the above and it is still not working for me. Alan, I've tried the COMPUTER\POLICIES\ADMIN TEMPLATES\PRINTERS\POINT AND PRINT RESTRICTIONS and it does not work for me. I still get the same 0x80070bcb error that I've got before.

Let me restate, I've had this working before with no issues on Windows 7, but it has not worked after the domain was upgraded to 2008 R2 DCs and then the domain level was put to 2008 R2. You think it would work better after that, but nope, still doesn't. My WinXP machines work great, I can deploy, change and remove printers all I want with no issues. Just not Windows 7.

Any other help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

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this is the error

C:\>winerror 0x0bcb
3019 ERROR_PRINTER_DRIVER_DOWNLOAD_NEEDED <--> No NTSTATUS matched

If the WIndows 7 machine is 64bit AND there is not a 64bit driver installed on the 32bit print server that uses the same name as the 32bit print driver name, then I'd expect this.

Since it has worked or Windows 7 clients are 32bit, I have no idea. Since this feature was added by the group policy team and not the print team, I'll see if someone there has any idea about this issue.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team; Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1

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My exact error is "Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code 0x80070bcb. The specified printer device was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded. This error was suppressed."

Just like the rest of the people, if I went to the print server and right clicked and said connect I could install it after the UAC window would pop up. Now, are the drivers the latest driver out there....no. But I was able to deploy them on my computer running Win7 x86 about 2 months ago without any issues. My issues only started after promoting the domain to 2008 R2 level.

Today I've been testing it out with a 2008 R2 print server and so far it is working without any issues. Now, I don't see why I would need the latest server OS to get the printer deployment working again unless Microsoft just wanted some extra money, but it is working. I probably spent a week or more trying to get the 2003 R2 print server working to no prevail through GP.

I will keep testing the GP printer deployment with the new print server, but I really wish I found the reason it stopped working on the old one.

Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

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The UAC window indicates the Point and Print Restrictions policy is not configured, or enabled to display the prompts that will stop Group Preferences Printer stuff from working.

Once you correct the policy configuration, I would expect the printer connections. When using any driver that included in Server 2008 or 2008 R2, the drivers are signed packages and the client is not prompted for driver downloads.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team; Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1

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I do have Point & Print Restrictions disabled completely and it still doesn't work.

Alan you bring up something I haven't though of "When using any driver that included in Server 2008 or 2008 R2, the drivers are signed packages and the client is not prompted for driver downloads."

Is it not working because I'm not using the drivers included in 2008 R2? I need to deploy copiers and those drivers are more than the standard drivers since they do so much more.

Also, say I do use the driver included in 2008 R2, where do I find the x86 driver? They must be the same driver otherwise you can't deploy the x86 driver. Are they kept in the OS somewhere?

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You would need to push these from a Windows 7 machine with admin access to the print server.

If you are getting the prompt for driver downloads, you are disabling the wrong policy or the domain policy is not getting applied to the machines.

When using a print driver that is included in 2008 R2, Window 7 client machines that have the same driver set will install from the local driver store rather than the print server.

Vista will be stuck since the driver is not inbox.

Add a printer that uses inbox HP Color LaserJet 9500 PCL 6 as one of the GPP printers. That should be installed on Vista and Windows 7 32bit client machines.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team; Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1

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It is not "Point and Print restictions that you need to worry about. It is "Extend Point a Print connection......" needs to be enabled and I can guarantee you it will work. When this policy is enabled it allows your computer to automatically/silently download the required print driver from Windows Updates and install it on your computers with no problems. Just read my reply earlier..... I have suggested it to one of my friends that is IT in another company and it had worked for them too...

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Am 29.05.2010 23:09, schrieb tina_fofa:
> It is *"Extend Point a Print connection......"* needs to be *enabled*

There is no need to extend the search to Windows Update, if you use
a functional driver. Usally the problem is, the driver is not signed.

Bigger problem in that:
Possibly, the client will find and use a driver that is no tested in
my environment, because all other uses the vendor drivers and not the
MS ones.

Mark
--
Mark Heitbrink - MVP Windows Server - Group Policy

Homepage: www.gruppenrichtlinien.de - deutsch
Discuss : www.freelists.org/list/gpupdate

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I'm late to the party... I know.

Back me up a step, please. I do not see "Point and Print Restrictions" in COMPUTER\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions, I only see them in user\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions.

I, too, have the issue where Windows 7 users are prompted to install the driver for printers. I install printers through logonscript .vbs, but am willing to install via GPP if I can get it to work.

So, if someone can shed light on why I cannot see the Computer Configuration settings, I'd be much obliged.

Thanks.

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I have found the source of my problem:

The templates loaded in the central store were out of date. Having updated them, I can now see the Point and Print settings for Windows 7.

Case closed!

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I have exactly this problem.

I have a Windows Server 2008 (not R2) and want to deploy Printers though Group Policy (from the Server) to Windows 7 Machines. {Deployment is currently working for Windows XP machines, but on the Windows 7 machines i get the following error "The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded"}. I believe this error can be fixed by changing Print and Print Restrictions in Computer Policy.

However, I do not see "Point and Print Restrictions" in COMPUTER\policies\admin templates\printers, I only see them in USER\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions.

How EXCALTY do i update the templates in the Central Store on the 2008 Server so that COMPUTER\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions appear sin the Group Policy UI ?

Many many thanks

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How EXCALTY do i update the templates in the Central Store on the 2008 Server so that COMPUTER\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions appear sin the Group Policy UI ?

Many many thanks

Put in your Central Store the files from "C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions" of a Windows 7 computer.

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Has there not been any resolve to this yet? I have attempted all listed above. I am able to get two HP printers to deploy with GPO in user preferences mode, but with my Ricoh MP C2500 I get the error about "Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.' This error was suppressed."

I have done all the above about updating central store to WIN 7 admx, disabled and enabled those listed changes above in previous reply's. I have also deleted the GPO, deleted the printers, deleted the drivers, reinstalled drivers, updated drivers, reinstalled printer, search for printer by UNC instead of browsing.

What is strange is that it works for two of my printers as I stated but fails on the Ricoh. Both SBS 2008 and the WIN 7 Client are 64 bit.

This is very frustrating and that could have saved a lot of time just going around and adding the printers manually from each desktop.

-Travis

Travis

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Yes.

When the print driver is package aware on Server 2008 and greater, the print driver will install on the client without any user prompts. If the print server is 2003 and package aware drivers will be installed using legacy install and will no longer contain the digital signature.

Is the print server 64bit? Is there a 64bit print driver installed using the same name as the 32bit driver if the server is 32bit?

Since you stated you already configured the Computer / Admin Templates / Printers / Point and Print ..., it sounds like the 64bit print driver is not installed on the print server. If it is not the same name, it is not the same print driver, Ricoh PCL does NOT equal Ricoh PS.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

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Alan,

Thanks for follow up. The print server is a 64 bit Small Business Server.

I did some more testing and found it strange that if I used the Deploy with Group Policy option from Print Management I could then select the GPO created for the original printer deployment and it would then deploy it under User\Policy configuration. Why would it deploy via that Group Policy setting in Printer Managment and not the Preferences method?

Travis

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I know GPP will not download the print driver when the Point and Print Restrictions policy are in the Not Configured state. Deployed Printer client will download the driver since it is aware of spooler policies. So most likely this Policy is not properly configured.

The Deployed Printer component is a spooler team feature. The Group Policy Preferences is a group policy team feature. The client component is different and I do not know how GPP works. Why both features? Microsoft purchased the GPP stuff for inclusion in Server 2008 (I'm sure it was more complex than that), and the spooler team had already released printer specific deployment in 2003 R2 as well as Vista. I'm sure the group that determines product features will figure out the duplication of features some day and make a call on this.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

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Try to deploy your printers directly via the printserver - server manager - select printserver - printers

right click on the printer -- select "Deploy with Group Policy"

- click on browse --> find the desired policy

- select if you want to deploy the printer "per computer" or "per user" and click "add"

after that - gpupdate on the client - and voilà the printers are listed....

Edited by toepch Sunday, October 24, 2010 10:40 AM type

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pd_toc, that did it for me. I ran through everything above and then some. Your suggestion did the trick! Thanks!

Jeff

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Ok, so after about a week of off and on troubleshooting myself and posting here for info, I finally found my answer. If pushing out printers via group policy, in order for the drivers to load, you have to have the following setting enabled inside your GPO. Either (or both)

computer\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED

user\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED

I am not entirely sure if you need both halves disabled or not, but I went ahead and did it, it's not going to hurt anything.

Apparently there was also a policy for Vista in a different path, but since we never did Vista, this was unknown to me. XP ignores this setting, which explains why it worked on XP and not on Win 7.

HI Troy

in which container?GPO you apply these settings?Domain Controller or Printserver?

thanks

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I've done some testing on this with 2003 R2 (schema level 2003 R2) and Windows 7 64-bit. I've finally come up with repeatable results and some odd ones.

On the 2003 server, I created three printers, all using the HP universal print driver (printer one, printer two, printer three). From the W7 box, I added the x64 driver to the 2003 print server.

Next, using RSAT on the W7, I created a group policy and used user preferences to deploy the shared printers. I shared two of the printers this way, using item level targeting to send the printer to two different users - one printer each. I didn't add the third printer this way. The GP is tied to the User OU. I only created the shared printer, I didn't touch any other GP settings. At this point, the printers still don't deploy successfully.

In testing I found that deploying the printers to the GP using Print Management would work, but that just puts an entry in the User\policies section of the GP. That didn't give the granular control you get with user preferences. So based on that and much trial and error, I found that if I had deployed the third printer using Print Management and then immediately removed it using Print Management, all of the user preference printers would deploy from that point forward, including any new ones.

I don't know what's happening there, but once a printer has been deployed using Print Management, you can deploy all you want using user preferences. To clarify, I only deployed printer three using the Print Management and then immediately un-deployed it. Printer three was never deployed using user preferences. In essence, I needed to deploy a dummy printer using Print management and then all of the user preference printers worked.

I can't explain why this works, but I was able to reproduce the results several times. I used VMs so I could rollback and start fresh for each scenario. I can provide more details if anyone cares.

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Mike,

Have you used a fresh install of the OS or an image ?

" Never panic before reboot ! "

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The 2003 and W7 were fresh installs when I started. I took snapshots of the base installs and then started testing. I reverted to the base snapshots after each test scenario.

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That's easy, Group Policy Preferences never creates the connection because the prompt for driver downloads is supressed as indicated in the event log error in GPP. Using Deployed Printers installs the driver from the server when the connection is created. Once you have the driver GPP can create the connection.

Configure your Computer Point and Print restrictions as stated previously. I do not recommend disabling the policy.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

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It does make sense that the driver gets deployed by using the user policy instead of prefs. Disabling the Point and Print restrictions under the User and Computer policies of the GP works.

To revise my post above (which still provides a working solution, but adds an odd step) with new information:

1. Create a Group Policy applied to the User's OU.

2. Create a shared printer in User\Preferences\Control Panel\Printers.

3. Disable Point and Print restrictions in User\Policies\Administrative Tools\Control Panel\Printers.

4. Create a Group Policy applied to the Computer's OU (could also use the previous one and apply it to the Computer's OU too).

5. Disable Point and Print restrictions in Computer\Policies\Administrative templates\Printers

I tried various combination of this and this turned out to be the only working combination. Note that I never deployed the printer using Print Management.

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Windows 7 will never honor the user settings, this is only for XP and Vista.

3. Disable Point and Print restrictions in User\Policies\Administrative Tools\Control Panel\Printers.

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

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You are correct. Strike #3 from above. It isn't needed.

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I just tried using this process: http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/07/how-to-deploy-printers-with-group-policy-windows-server-2008-7-vista-xp/ and it worked fine! It's one more approach to the same old problem...

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Here is a solution for Windows 7 64bit (32bit works fine with the information persented here).

I found that I had to add authenticated users -> print permissions on the printer share (2003 R2) in order for GP preferences to successfully deploy a printer to a 64bit machine. If I use any other group, even Everyone, it does not work.

I also have point and print restrictions disabled and 64bit drivers installed on the 32bit 2003 print server.

They even work as a basic users on a client computer.

However this breaks your ability to control who can print to a specific printer using AD groups. I might burn a Microsoft tech call over this to see if I can get MS to offer a fix for it.

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"Extend Point and Print connnection.." was the required GPO change in our environment.

The interesting thing I should point out, is the 3 printers I deployed via GPP do not have drivers available via Windows Update. These drivers both 32-bit and 64-bit are downloaded from vendor site and installed on our printserver. Yet this GPO change was required to install printers via GPP.

Edited by RogerMathews Friday, May 4, 2012 3:33 PM

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I've been struggling with this problem and finally got it resolved. This is what I did.

1. Created printer in GP: Computer Configuration\Preferences\Control Panel Settings\Printers

2. Disabled following GP: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers\Point and Print Restrictions

After applying above steps, some printers were automatically applied when users log in. Some printer would not. I checked the Event Logs. In the Application logs I notices warning messages for those printers which did not apply via GP. Error message stated: The computer 'IP address' preference item in the 'GPO Item {xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070706 The print processor is unknown.' This error was suppressed.

3. I went on to the Printer Server and changed Print Processor to winprint for printers which did not apply via GP. Rebooted PC's, and all worked.

Hope this helps someone.

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I too had this problem, and the Computer Config/....Point and Print Restrictions=disabled worked.

Printer server is 2008r2 64bit, DC is 2008r2 64bit. Test machine is Win7 Pro 64bit.

I had created a single GPO to handle deployment to any Windows 7 machine, disabling the Computer section, and using item level targeting to filter which printer is deployed to each User via AD security group membership. I also applied a WMI filter: "Windows 7 Workstation" to the GPO, then linked it to the domain root and put my Test User account ONLY in the security Filtering box. This did not work.

Leaving the GPP settings the way I created them, I then used the "deploy via group policy" thing on the print server, pointing each printer (12 of them) at the one GPO. This pushed ALL the printers to my test machine, despite the test User account only being in a couple of the AD security groups made for each printer.

So I deleted the "deploy via group policy" stuff from the GPO, enabled the Computer Configuration and added the P&PR=Disabled setting, and it's working perfectly now.

Why does it have to be so hard? When looking at the definition of the P&PR setting, it doesn't even mention Win7 or server 2008. It seems to be specifically for XP, Vista, and 2003.

I will feel better about this solution after we set up a new printer and deploy it. This way there won't be a chance that the "deploy via group policy" stage (establishing a connection and installing drivers) secretly allows the P&PR part to work.

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I am running server 2008 and windows 7. Through Print management I have deployed 8 network printers (gpo per user). This same gpo worked sucessfully with the computers running xp. When a user logs onto our Dell 745 computers, all printers are deployed. When the same user logs into our hp 4300 workstations it is sporadic. Interestingly, all 4300 computers were cloned from the same machine. I isolated it even further, those 4300 workstations that have 2 1 gb ram sticks are not affected but those that have 4 512 ram sticks seem to cause a problem. Any ideas, I do not think it is the ram that is causing the problem (though it seems that way) but perhaps a slower login with the 512 ram sticks causes this group policy to be not completely installed. Any ideas out there? It has taken forever to isolate this problem but this seems to be the issue.

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An Interesting Read

An interesting article:

PowerShell Internals and PowerShell Threading.

Reply:

This is a good article but I have to disagree some of its claims.

PowerSHell console host is written using C++ 6.0 libraries and not necessarily C++ 6.0. The functionality of PowerShell is entirely contained in the PowerShell Management automation framework classes. PowerShell executes entriely inside of the CLR.

C++ can move easily between managed and unmanged code. It also is a good platform from which to launch a HOST particualrly if you want easy access to the Win32 API.

We can acccess all of PowerShell from C# or VB.Net in a completely managed session. We just will not have the same console experience.

Otto - Your post is a good find as it the article does illuminate many things about PowerSHell.

Thanks for posting it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited by jrv Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:36 PM

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SSL on SSRS 2008 R2

I realize this has probably been discussed in many different places. However, I am having a problem getting SSL configured on SSRS 2008 r2 on Windows 2008 R2

The SSRS installation was pre-existing and I was looking to implement SSL after the fact, using the instructions related to modifying the Web Service URL through Reporting Services Configuration Manager. However, even though I have properly installed the server certificate in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities, and am logged onto the server as Local Administrator, the certificate simply WILL NOT show up as a choice when modifying the Web Service URL in Configuration Manager. It shows no certificates available

I have seen many threads relating to the inability to select available certificates because they are malformed, etc. but none referring to the problem where the certificate simply does not show up.

DWM

Reply:

Hi,

Try launching Reporting Services Configuration Manager with "Run as an Administrator"

It's not the same as being logged as Local Administrator.

Sebastian Sajaroff Senior DBA Pharmacies Jean Coutu

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I attempted that, and no good. I also disabled UAC to see if there was something about that potentially blocking my access to the certificates.. but no good

DWM

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I am attempting to do this on a test server so i was playing around a bit.. I found that if i imported the certificate to the Personal store it showed up as available under Reporting Services Configuration Manager. All documentation indicates that it must be in the Trusted Root Certificates store. This seems very odd to me can someone please elaborate ?

DWM

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Print Jobs Not Deleting

*** Please don't reply to this post with workarounds and sticking plasters - that is not what this post is about! ***.

I just had the age old problem of print jobs not deleting when cancelled in the spooler. One member of this forum posed the question as to why this is such an old problem that has never been resolved in any versions of Windows now - General Discussion Print Jobs- stuck/won't cancel/won't delete !!!!. Out of perhaps a hundred or so replies, not one person actually read his question properly. I can't remember just exactly how old this problem is, but what I can say is that it is as old as my dealings with computers, and that's over 15 years now.

Be it Lexmark, Canon, HP. Be it a plain and simple home printer, or an all singing all dancing enterprise printer/copier/scanner. It makes no difference! I have seen this problem on dozens, if not hundreds of computers/printers over the years. Simply put, this is a bug that has always been in every version of windows that I have ever used, stretching way back to Windows 3.1 & 3.11. OK, I know it's not always a problem and that perhaps some people never suffer from it depending on their setup, but it is very very common, and in fact very very rife.

Now i'm not an MS basher, and indeed have purposely based my career as a software developer very firmly on MS tools and techniques. I am an MS fan and am happy going against the popular grain. Let's be clear before I start... I'M NOT looking for a solution to the problem. *** Please don't reply to this post with workarounds and sticking plasters ***.

My intention in this post is to attempt to get MS and the user community to discuss the root cause of this problem and possible future remedies to be built into Windows. If MS say it's bad drivers developed by printer companies, then please could we be thinking about how to ensure that drivers can't, or can't as easily hijack the print spooler in Windows. If printer manufacturers in some way blame MS, then can we do something about that.

Come on MS, let's fix a bug that has been around for a good deal longer than a decade now. I'm used to waiting for a given bug to dissapear in an imminent future version of any software I use, however to be waiting for what is so far a good deal longer than a quarter of my life so far on this planet, is perhaps too long a wait for anyone. By the way I am 40 years of age.

Here's hoping that my post was read properly before anybody replies!

Reply:

Come on read the post properly!

Let's be discussing what can be done to fix this age old bug in Windows? What is at fault? Who may be able to do something about this? MS? Driver writers? MS & Driver writers?

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I have 20 TS servers, only one has this problem. Restarting the spooler is not a "fix" to this problem as I 300+ users on each server. The printers will not delete on logout because there are print jobs still in the queue and it's a huge problem. I'm still looking but of course everyone just says "restart the spooler." Not. A. Fix.

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I created a batch file and placed it in a scheduled task on the server that restarts the spooler at timed intervals - every morning and afternoon. This has worked for me.

It's not a a fix - I don't think this problem will ever be resolved - I've come across the same thing with Macs. Mostly on older laser jet printers to be fair.

Nice attempt though - I doubt you'll find what we've all been looking for over the years :-/

For those looking for the restart spooler work around - follow these instructions to restarting the spooler: Cannot Delete print jobs

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I have basically done the same. A batch that stops the spooler, deletes jobs, starts the spooler every four hours. Not great but there have been no other solutions for me.

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Language Settings

I need to be able to run Internet Explorer in different languages

so for example the website http://test.braindumpblog.co.uk in English but all of the other websites i need to show in Finnish.

I have added the English language to the Language Settings which sort of works but the end user experience is horrible.

Is there a way to have two IE icons, one that starts with English as the only langauge and one that starts with only finnish as the only language.

HELP!

Changed type Kim Zhou Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:15 AM

Reply:

Add the bing or google web site translator widget to your site.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/Widget/

Rob^_^

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this is not an option sorry

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Is there a way to have two IE icons, one that starts with English as the only langauge and one that starts with only finnish as the only language.

I think a more feasible solution would be to see if the site which is the exception has an option to help you do what you want. For example, many users want to go to MSN US but get redirected to their local MSN home page (which may involve an unwanted change of language, independent of the user's Language preference), unless they explicitly override the redirect via a special value appended to the standard MSN URL.

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