Tag: Printer

LabTech & ConnectWise Plugin – Printer Health Status

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     Printer Health Status

Mr Keigher posted on the Labtech forums that wouldn’t it be great if there was a Printer Status Plugin for Labtech that could show if there were any issues with a printer and maybe even interact with a failed printer. Well Marty your ship has come in! Let me introduce you to your new Printer Status Plugin. The team down in Squidwork’s basement went to town taking what seemed like minutes (and it looks like it) to build a Labtech plugin that would do what had to be done.

In Version 1.0.4 you have good management over printers in 2 main views; the global view and the client view. The Global view allows for the full management suite of tools to be executed on any printer being scanned and will give you a quick view in to the troubles your clients maybe having. The Client view provides the same management functions but also allows you to enable and disable scanning for a client and to include desktops in printer scans.

Lets show you what we have:

Printer Status Global Manager:

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Printer Status at the Client Console:

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Printer Status Exclude Printers:

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Download Labtech Plugin – Printer Status Version 1.0.4

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Enjoy

Cubert

How to Install Printers in Windows 7 WITHOUT Local Admin Rights

Microsoft made some changes to the network printing security in Windows 7 and as a result, many non-admin users are not able to install network printers with an Access Denied message.

I did some research on this today, and found a solution.  We just need to make a new GPO on the domain level for each client network that is experiencing this problem.  These are newer GPO extensions, so its best to create the GPO on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.  Otherwise, you’ll need to find the ADM extensions and install them on the Server 2003 system.

 

 

  1. Configure Group Policy settings for “Point and Print” on BOTH computer and user settings (Vista previously only had user settings). The Location of the settings can be found here in GPOs:
    1. Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers\Point and Print Restrictions
    2. User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers\Point and Print Restrictions
  2. You will need to specify all print servers on the network and be sure to disable all security prompts.

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,

Cubert 😎