(I posted this in the Windows 7 forum. they told me to come here)
Windows 7 32/64 bit.
START -> Devices and Printers -> Add Printer -> Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer
Immediately after doing the above steps Windows 7 searches and comes back with results. They are very strange results. I assumed it was broadcasting the network and finding local network printers, but some of them are for other buildings that have different subnets/broadcast domains. So it doesn't see to be doing that. Rarely is the printer you want one of the ones there.
I would like to do one of the following:
- Disable the searching and just go to the next step where they can choose to search the directory (like they used to always do in Windows XP).
- List all of the printers from my print server in the first list.
All of the printers are already listed in AD and the print server is 2008R2. We have a couple older ones that are 2003 R2 and they do show some printers but not all. I just don't know what makes them appear in that location. Is the a GPO I can use to get this working?
Preferably I'd like to do the second option because the searching can be handy when connecting home printers when it just finds them.
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