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Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. I made the change using gpedit. You can make this change on every laptop, or create an organizational unit to place all the laptop users, and set this policy on the OU.
Thanks for trying it out. Eventually, we hope to be utilizing Group Policy more effectively and this will be one policy we can set up selectively. I appreciate the MSKB link. I searched, but did not find that one.
That solution is exactly what I was hoping to find since it can be implemented quickly on a single system. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem. Also please exercise your best judgment when posting in the forums--revealing personal information such as your e-mail address, telephone number, and address is not recommended.
Please note: Do not post advertisements, offensive material, profanity, or personal attacks. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. The next step is to allow the user to install the printer drivers via GPO. Enable the policy and specify the device classes that users should be allowed to install.
Click the Show button and in the appeared window add two lines with device class GUID corresponding to printers:. When you enable this policy, members of the local Users group can install a new device driver for any device that matches the specified device classes.
In Windows 10 there is another feature related to the UAC User Account Control settings, which occurs when you try to install a shared network printer. If the UAC is enabled, a message appears in which you want to specify the credentials of the Administrator. To solve this problem, you need to disable the policy Point and Print Restrictions.
In order to enable compatibility with previous versions of the Windows operating system, it is recommended to disable both policies. They are located in the following sections:. Then you should disable this policy for Windows 10 computers, the security warnings, and elevated prompts do not appear when the user tries to install the network printer or when the printer driver is updating.
You can disable Point and Print Restrictions via the registry. Use the following command:. If you want to restrict the list of print servers from which users are allowed to install print drivers without admin permissions, you need to set the Point and Print Restriction policy to Enabled. It remains to test the policy on client computers requires restart. After rebooting and applying Group Policy settings, users will be allowed to install printer drivers without Admin permissions.
After installing the update KB, released on July 12, , in order to successfully install the printer, the printer driver must meet the following requirements:. The driver must be packed Package-aware print drivers. Installing of the unpacked non-package-aware drivers through Point and Print Restrictions is impossible.
For package-aware print drivers, you can see the True value in the Packaged column. In August , Microsoft released a security update for Windows 10 KB that made significant changes to the printer installation policy.
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