Hi,
Basically, what I have done is install a fresh go of server 2008 R2 on to a machine, assign the print services role, and then go through adding a couple of printers, and deploying them using Group Policy. That is all fine, works great for getting them on the machines I'm deploying to, happy days. However, I need to make sure that, for example, the black & white printer is the one that gets used and not the colour ones. I also want to try to do all of it through the computer configuration side of the group policy object, because I'm keen on not letting people start to shift around default printers if I can get away with it. So, in deployed printers, I've got my list there, thats fine. I go to preferences\control panel settings\printers and there is nothing there. Fair enough, not a problem, there aren't any settings in there yet. I then decide to add the printers in (TCP/IP printers is what I'm working with), see if I can set the default in there. The box to set it is there, but it is greyed out for some reason that is beyond me. I really don't want to be using the user config, so I'm wondering if there is anything someone can suggest to me to get this to work? I've got another whole heap of offices to set up with this, so once I get the basics done, then I should be ok with it all (I hope!)
many thanks
Stephen