Windows 7 - Deploying Printers via Group Policy Preferences

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I've begun testing Windows 7 deployment on our network and came across a new setting which effects deploying printers using Group Policy Preferences. The setting is under Computer Configuration --> Policies --> Administrative Templates --> Printers. It is named "Extend Point and Print connection to search Windows update."

If for some reason you don't have a Windows 7 driver on your server or in the image, you can enable this setting to allow the client machine to pull a driver down from Windows Update. This combined with disabling the security prompts under the "Point and Print Restrictions" will allow seamless installation of deployed printers for all users on the network.

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