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Gracefully delete network printers from other Win2000 user's profiles?

Asked by infiniteposse in Miscellaneous

Tags: printers, all, profile, delete, from

Hi all-

Tommorrow I begin a project where I have to touch all of my PC's - Win2000 desktops - and I have to manually setup new print queues that will reside on a new server (the old print server is being decommisioned at the end of the month).  The old queues have all been migrated over from Server A to Server B, but I have to actually sit at each machine and physically point the PC to the new printer queue or set up IP-based printing.

The work will be super easy for users who are at their desk and logged in, obviously.  I'll just add the new printer, delete the old printer queues and call it a day.

However, for users not at their desk things get a little more hairy.  I'm thinking I'll just setup IP-based printing for these users, since IP-based printers propagate through all Windows 2000 profiles, and I've also created documentation to walk the users though how to delete their old printer queues afterwards.

My question would be, is there any way for me to login as myself on the machine (admin permissions) and then delete the references to the old print queues so these guys don't have to deal with it?  I'd like to cause as little confusion as possible and I fear my documentation, though clear, will puzzle many of them.  I've searched the net, but don't see anything that seems to do the job.

Before you ask, we don't do dedicated print queues that propagate from the server ala scripting or GPO since not all of my folks are consistant geographically.  There's not a clear, "this group lives here and only prints to this printer" kind of setup...

Any feedback greatfully appreciated.

Lee
 
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