Regional Settings GPO and the red lines

Microsoft made an awesome setting for regional settings, but it doesn’t work. Although I did set up it correctly ( I thought ), the settings weren’t applied.

I already saw those wicked red lines on the bottom of the field settings, but I ignored it. NEVER EVER ignore it 😉

By default al settings are “not applied” ( red line ). When you press F6 the bar becomes green and your setting will be applied! With F7 you can disable it. That’s it!

Disabling Redirected Printers on printserver 2008 R2

I noticed when i logged on to my printserver using RDP there were a lot of printers coming up. Showed up as (redirected 3). I know i can disable it on the client but then all the system administrators should do that everytime when they log on to the print server. You can disable it on the server itself. The best way to do this is to make a GPO and set the following setting : Enabled

If you want to do it the wrong way, you can use GPEDIT.msc

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Printer Redirection > Do not allow client printer redirection

Setting a default printer with GPO

 

This one is pretty simple but the way we managed our printers made it a little harder. We deploy our printers with GPO using a machine setting. Students can only print to the printer in that room, a fool proof print-and-run-to-printer system.

If you use machine policy’s you can’t set the default printer. Default printer setting is a user policy setting.

Imagine a room with 2 printers, a high-volume B/W printer and an expensive-per-print Color machine. You want both pushed to the computers in that room ( Computers in an OU ), but you want the high-volume printer as default. You can make a new policy with the following settings:

You place your policy on an OU with machines. To use the user settings you need to enable User Group Policy loopback processing mode.

At the printer settings, enable: Set this printer as default printer.

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