Heres the scenario I am in. I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the print server role installed.
I have installed the necessary printer drivers that I want to push out via GPO. I went to start, devices and printers and clicked add a printer and setup the networked printer (Konica Minolta). The printer is printing fine and being pushed out fine (via user, not computer). I setup the printers to push out via the printer management tool that comes when you install the print server service role.
Now here in lies the problem, when I make changes to the printing preferences on the server it is not replicating to all the computers that have this printer deployed.
I have tried rebooting the pcs to see if it needs to reinstall via GPO.
I have also uninstalled then reinstalled the printer via the GPO.
I have done a gpupdate/force and still no success.
Is it possible to do this? and if it is possible how do I get the settings to replicate to all the computers?
The printer is a Konica Minolta Bizhub c284 and the driver im not sure of, it should be the latest one, I downloaded it from Konica's website.
Thanks!
Best Answer
You wouldn't need to replace printer driver just because you changed the print preferences. What you should be able to do is to deploy the printer via Group Policy Preferences using the Replace method/option. That should delete and recreate the printer on each client, updating the print preferences in the process.