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TCP/IP printer pushout via Sites & Services GPO

Hello All,

Is anyone using printer pushout via GPO and Sites and Services? I was just curious your experience with it. I don't forsee any issues.

We're talking about doing it for a lot of our smaller sites. We're currently doing it by security group to GPO. So we have to add computers all the time.. and it isn't friendly to mobile users. It seems a better idea to do it by Site/IP to GPO. That way all computers at that site/subnet will get the TCP/IP printer. Visiting mobile users will get the printers when they visit the site.

For the larger sites with a lot of printers, we'll use a print server.

So does this sound like a good idea? I'd love to hear other's experiences from SAs that utilize this method. I'm not seeing a lot to go on in Google.

Thanks!

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Mike Kline

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SA-mattman

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We're 98% XP atm. We currently are utilizing gpo preferences for printer pushout. We just assign it to security groups. I know that's common but when I put more thought into it, why would anyone pick it over sites? You don't have to worry about adding computers to a group all the time.

Thanks for your answer btw.

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