I'm moving a client site from an old 2003 box to a 2012 VM. I've created print queues on the new server, one for B&W and one for Color, just like on the old server. Both queues point to the same Canon MFD. I have a GPP that pushes out the printers to the Windows 7 & XP clients. The XP clients have the hotfix for GPP installed.
I've run into a couple of problems.
1. Why are changes to the printer default properties not carried through to the clients? Any changes I made to the queues from the defaults prior to deployment via GPP carried though, but since deployment no changes show on the clients.
2. I've set the B&W queue on the new server as the default in the GPP but the B&W on the old server still shows as the default on some PCs (I have reasons for not quite removing the old server's queues yet). The customer changes it to the B&W on the new server but it changes back to the old one after a while. I've checked all GPOs and the only GPO doing anything with printers is the new one I created and that has the B&W on the new server set as the default printer.
3. The first time the users try to print to the new print queues they are getting a pop-up message that tells them they don't have the driver installed and asking them if they want to install it. I've never seen that happen before so I'm puzzled by that it's a hassle with the users since they're somewhat perplexed by getting that message. Some of them click Cancel so they don't get the driver and they can't print. Why would they get that popup asking if they want a driver installed? And how do I get the driver installed automatically like it should be?
Jonathan