Hi,
I am trying to install some printers through GPOs on my domain something.com. When I try to publish them, it does not work and they do not appear in the Device and Printers. I have then researched a lot on the Internet and find out that, to find what was causing the problem, I had to do a "gpresult -h test.html" to see what was applied and what did not work. I did that and found out that, under my printer policy, there was a failure message listed as following: Result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070bcb).
I also looked at my event viewer and there was the error message: "The user 'Printer's name' preference item in the 'GPO SID' 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 was surprised because that printer have been installed on several other PC before. I then decided to try to install it manually by browsing my print server and by double-clicking on the printer. MAGIC! It worked! I was then confused because the driver were present and working. I then did more research and found out that the "Point and Print" option might be causing some trouble because of UAC and other security features of Windows. I then disabled the following options:
- User -> Policies -> Control Panel -> Printers -> Point and Print Restriction
- User -> Policies -> Control Panel -> Printers -> Package Point and Print - Approved servers
- Computer -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Printers - Point and Print Restriction
I was hoping that it would work but no it did not. So I decided to search even more on the Internet without any sucessful answers.
The PC is a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed locally at 10 meters of the server :)
The environment include several Domain Controller but GPOs are replicated. The Security Group that the printer should be added is "Printer Mapping_8180-Office" and the user is called testm and is a member of the previous stated group.
Here is the result of "Gpresult -r"
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Operating System Group Policy Result tool v2.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2001 Created On 24/11/2012 at 4:46:00 PM RSOP data for IECHOLDEN\testm on IEC041LMTLW7P64 : Logging Mode ---------------------------------------------------------------- OS Configuration: Member Workstation OS Version: 6.1.7601 Site Name: N/A Roaming Profile: N/A Local Profile: C:\Users\Testm Connected over a slow link?: No USER SETTINGS -------------- CN=Test Mappings,OU=MT-8180,OU=IEC-Users,OU=IEC Global Rules,DC=iecholden,DC=com Last time Group Policy was applied: 24/11/2012 at 4:23:42 PM Group Policy was applied from: IEC-MTL-DC1.iecholden.com Group Policy slow link threshold: 500 kbps Domain Name: IECHOLDEN Domain Type: Windows 2000 Applied Group Policy Objects ----------------------------- Redirect AppData to Local Redirected Folders Roaming - My Documents Only IEC-MappDrive Default Domain Policy The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out ------------------------------------------------------------------- Disable Autorun Filtering: Not Applied (Empty) Local Group Policy Filtering: Not Applied (Empty) Enable RDP Filtering: Not Applied (Empty) The user is a part of the following security groups --------------------------------------------------- Domain Users Everyone BUILTIN\Administrators BUILTIN\Users NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE CONSOLE LOGON NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users This Organization LOCAL Drive Mapping_N Printer Mapping_8180-Office Drive Mapping_K Drive Mapping_X Drive Mapping_P FS_PUBLIC_0Corporate_Quality_Guest ____ALL FS_PUBLIC_5Quality_Guest High Mandatory Level
How can I make this GPO work?