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Removing printers deployed by group policy

Asked by smilneisom in Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista

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We've deployed printers very sucessfully to our Vista workstations using Group Policy, but there is one catch.  For some reason when we remove a printer from bring deployed via group policy it stays on the client machines.  The result is a mess of printers on the clients, some of which don't exist anymore.  

Everything I can find says that do delete the printers from the clients, all you have to do is remove them from being "deployed" in the GPO.  It doesn't seem to be working here at all.

Running GPUpdate doesn't help.  If you try to remove the printer manually, it just gives an access denied error.  

I'm sure that the printers are removed from group policy.  Just FYI: the printers were/are deployed on a per-user basis through group policy.  We have *not* used the Windows Printer Management Utility that comes with R2... the printers have been deployed/un-deployed by adding/removing them directly from the "deployed printers" section of the affected GPO.  All users seem to be experiencing this error.  Most users have "user" lever permissions (not admins), but even our network admins are having the issue when logged into their computers as administrators.

To summarize, the built-in "pushprinterconnections" script in Vista is doing a great job at deploying printers from GPO, but failing terribly at removing them.  Thanks in advance for any assistance.Start Free Trial
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