I have two terminal servers that is serving clients in 3 locations. Each location has a ton of printers, but the clients using the terminal servers want things simple and they ONLY want to see the printers that actually use. The curve-ball is,
they want duplex printing turned on, and redirection does not allow printing preference to carry over.
So, here is what I've done:
~ Created basic GPO "per user" with logon script for pushprinterconnections.exe
~ Set the default print settings from the print server, i.e. dupliex printing
~ Deployed Printers per user via print management console on the print server
Woo-hoo it worked.....wait for it...nope. Well it did, but my customer is a bit picky.
This has accomplished allowing each user to only see printers they need, and set up duplex by default. Here is the last caveat. 5 groups of users total, all needing a specific DEFAULT printer.
How do I set that default printer? If I log onto the client computer, RDP to the terminal server and change the default printer there, will it stick? I'm not sure since they are deployed via print management on a per user basis with a logon script.