Computer default printer GPO

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Computer default printer GPO

Keith Hampshire 96

I need to create a default printer GPO that only applies to a certain computer security group. The problem that I am running into is that is the "set a default printer" that option only shows up under the "user" GPO. Meaning under the computer settings it is grayed out.

How can I apply a default printer to a security group that the members are computers?

All domain controllers are server 2019.

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Lucas 266

The default printer is an option defined per-user, Windows can't set a default printer for the system.
I recommend you to create a User GPO and use Item-Level Targeting to specify the target Computer group:

Answer 2

Hi there,

This is by design that it has been greyed out. Unfortunately, when pushing printers with GPP at the Computer level, there is no way to set the default printer. You should use either logon scripts to set the default or GPP at the User configuration level to set the default one.

Setting default printer in group policy using computer configuration https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/9117e7fe-5264-4645-a8f3-30518a3db3df/setting-default-printer-in-group-policy-using-computer-configuration-server-2008-r2?forum=winserverGP

Use Group Policy settings to control printers in Active Directory https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/printing/use-group-policy-to-control-ad-printer

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