Permissions to manage printers and documents

[Dave R.]

How can I configure Vista Business so that a standard user account
automatically gets permissions to manage printers and documents for all
printers added to the system? After a printer is in stalled, an
administrator can change the permissions for the printer to allow this,
but I'm looking for a way for this to happen automatically. I've looked
through the local security policies and group policies and can't find
anything that will do this. Any ideas?

Regards,

Dave

 

[Josh Phillips]

Dave,

We are using the point and print policy to configure our machines so that
users don't have to elevate to install printers from our print servers.

GPedit.msc - User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Contorl Panel |
Printers | Point and Print Restrictions.

"Windows Vista clients can be configured to not show security warnings or
elevation prompts when users point and print, or when drivers for printer
connections need to be updated."

if you are talking local printers, you might need to use the device
installation policies @ Computer Configuration | System | Device
Installation | Device Installation Restrictions

Hope these help put you on the right path.

Josh
http://windowsconnected.com

 

[Dave R.]

We are dealing with local printers (or network printers configured with
a local port). The biggest reason I need standard users to have Printer
Management rights for all printers that get installed is less to be able
to install drivers (we've got that pretty well handled), and more to be
able to delete printers that have been replaced so they don't continue
to show up in the printer list. None of those policies appear to help
with that, unless I'm not seeing something...

Any ideas / thoughts?

Regards,

Dave