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Site GPO to fire on TS client IP, not server.

I am the admin of a small business network. The majority of users are terminal server based, running TS sessions against 3 terminal servers in the head office. Several branch offices are connected via a private VPN, these have their own workstations (mostly Wyse terminals), and printers.

What I want to do is have printers on the remote sites automatically mapped, when users connect there. Ordinarily, this could be done via a GPO applied to the site, however this will not work as it will be processed as the terminal server IP, not the client.

For example, head office has a 10.0.1.254/24 range, remote office has 10.0.2.254/24.  A travelling user drags a laptop into the remote office, plugs it in and gets an IP of 10.0.2.25. He connects to the a terminal server in the head office at 10.1.0.200, and logs on to do some work.

What I would like is for printers in the remote office, on the 10.0.2.254/24 subnet to be automatically mapped, for this user.  I don't want to redirect back to printers on the client machine itself, I want the printer installed on the TS itself, and spooled through the local printer queues.

Any ideas?
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I wrote an article a while back outlining the steps to leverage Group Policy Preferences (GPP) within GPO.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/11321/Deploying-Printers-using-Group-Policy-Preferences.html

The article shows how to use security groups to control how printers are deployed, but you can easily focus on Computer Name or even IP-Address.

Hope this article guide you in the direction you are looking for.

The other option is using Security Filtering or WMI Filtering, but that would warrant Loopback setting to be configured.  I think the easier method of management for this is GPP w/ Item Level Targeting enabled.
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