Mastering Windows Group Policy

Creating a printer connection

Another task that is a general nuisance for IT folks is the mundane creation of all the printers that your users need to access from their work computers. In a business environment, it is common to make use of a print server of some kind so that you don't have to make individualized TCP/IP connections between all computers and all printers, but even if your printers are all configured to work with a centralized print server, you still need to create connections to those shared printers on each workstation. Group Policy to the rescue again! There is an easy way to identify a printer connection inside a Preference package, and automate the rollout of that printer connection to your users and computers. This is ...