Windows – Network Printer Installation without administrator permissions

windowswindows 7windows-server-2003

We have a Windows 2003 server with client XP and Windows 7, all our printers are installed on the server and a login script installed the printers to our client when they login.
It's working fine with XP pro and now we have Windows 7, a pop-up appears saying the driver need to be downloaded from the server and only proceed if you trust the server. Since the users have only power user rights they can't install it. I have lowered the users account settings to low already.

I search and came across some suggestion such as:

//magalan.co.uk/install_local_printers_without_admin_rights.html

//social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/532e101e-424d-45c8-b984-1adf33d9744d

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/6651859c-7101-40e0-a594-366b8ab4393a

saying I need to set the GPO to enable point and print restriction which I can't even find under the computer configuration settings. Maybe they were referring to Windows 2008 server.

I have called Xerox also about it and they said because there drivers have not been certified by Microsoft yet so that is why it pops up with this message.

I did managed to get around it by installing the driver on the local machine using admin rights and then delete it and the script will install without any prompt, but we have hundreds of machines, anybody can help me with this, much appreciated.

I just want to install the driver on Windows 7 machine using a script.

Thanks

Best Answer

Please see the following link, I believe you have the same issue that this resolves. 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753269.aspx#BKMK_GPLimitServers

EDIT

I see you have found point and print. The way to enable point and print is to obtain the ADM files and import them onto your server.

EDIT 2

Have you tried the below from one of your links? I have just tested it on my test network successfully.

You have to set the GPO for Point and Print restrictions and Deploy the printers to the users using Group Policy . This will get rid of that admin prompt for non-admins when installing printers on Windows 7.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731292.aspx

To deploy printers to users or computers by using Group Policy 1. Open Print Management. 2. In the left pane, click Print Servers, click the applicable print server, and click Printers. 3. In the center pane, right-click the applicable printer, and then click Deploy with Group Policy. 4. In the Deploy with Group Policy dialog box, click Browse, and then choose or create a new GPO for storing the printer connections. 5. Click OK. 6. Specify whether to deploy the printer connections to users, or to computers: To deploy to groups of computers so that all users of the computers can access the printers, select the The computers that this GPO applies to (per machine) check box.

To deploy to groups of users so that the users can access the printers from any computer they log onto, select the The users that this GPO applies to (per user) check box.

  1. Click Add.
  2. Repeat steps 3 through 6 to add the printer connection setting to another GPO, if necessary.
  3. Click OK.
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