Hi All,
Ok so we have been battling an issue for ages and now i have decided to come here for some help.
Computers are Windows 7, servers VM Server 2008. Couple of DC's, a print server and others.
Now we are having a problem when deploying printers via Group Policy. Sometimes they appear. Sometimes they dont. Even when they dont appear the event logs tells you that the group policy has deployed successully and if you look at the group policy results the policy containing the printer it is there and says everything is ok. But obviously its not as the printer doesnt appear. Using gpupdate /force doesnt allow the printer to appear either. Again its hit and miss.
So not only that when the printer does sometimes deploy, it can disappear without rythm or reason. So this is what i have done :
- Updates network card drivers on Windows 7 machines.
- Checked the servers time sync
- Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Bypass travers Setting - made sure everyone has this access
- Stop AV scanning sysvol folder
- Enabled Do not apply during periodic background processing on the printing preferences in group policy
- Remove and recreating the group policy.
- Tried deployment on a computer not running av still problems
- made sure No firewall enabled.
- Moved computer into OU with blocked inheritance and just the printer gp and they dont appear.
Any help would be appreciated.