help with printers on profiles...

johnnyg5646

I work for a college where we are planning to move a lot of faculty offices while they are gone on summer break. The problem is these machines have profiles on them that are setup to use network printers that are in their old locations. Since their profiles already exist, I do not have any scripts I can run that will change their default printers to the new ones without being able to log in as them. Can anyone point me in the direction of something That might help me? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

blargoe

You can try using WSH

http://www.ss64.com/wsh/defaultprint.html

johnnyg5646

in this scenario, would the setting of that default printer overwrite the default printer for pre-existing profiles?

blargoe

All printer settings are user-specific, the only way I can think of to make it affect every user without you visiting their computer is to have a script that executes when they log on.

royal

A utility I have used in the past is FoxPro Printmig. You have a mapping file on a network share. Something like \\oldserver\printer = \\newserver\printer. After you migrate, you put the tool with the switches to call the mapping file in the user's login script, and it'll take custom settings the user has modified in their print settings, uninstall the printer, install the new printer, re-apply any custom settings.

http://www.foxwaredesign.com/Index.htm