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Saving personal printer settings in user profile
Hi,
When a user sets some personal printer settings those settings are nog saved in the users profile. For example, when a user sets the output for printing to a mailbox (canon multifunctional) and sets the paper from letter to A4 and he logs out and then logs in again the settings are gone (back to default).
Somehow these settings are nog recognized bij vWorkspace. We have tried several options. We used processmonitor to see which regkey and files change during altering the printer settings and included these in the user profile but so far no luck.
Is there anyone who had an solution for this problem?
regards
Sijtze van Dellen
MCP, MCTS
ss.van.dellen
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November 27th, 2012 06:00
Hi Jose,
I've been thinking about a solution to import/export the printer settings. I was thinking on a sort of vbs construction where you export the settings to a regfile and, on logon, import the settings from this regfile with a delay (after pnshell).
Do you have another solution. Is it possible to let pnshell map the printers first and after that import the regkey's.
regards
Sijtze
carl1001
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November 30th, 2012 01:00
Hi Jose,
We have the exact same issue.
Our users get a whole lot of printers assigned via Quest. It is too difficult to use policies to set the default so we let the users set their own. However this causes problems as mentioned in this thread.
How would we go about getting a fix for this? The manual idea works but that is not fun at all.
Regards,
Carl
ss.van.dellen
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November 30th, 2012 05:00
Hi Carl,
I've 'fixed' it using 2 .vbs files. The first one export the two regkey to a two regfiles in the users profile during logoff. The 2 regfiles are than included in the metaprofile. Then using vWorkspace management console I added the second script which runs during logon. This script import the two regfiles in the registry using a delay of 15 second.
This way pnshell first has time to map the printers and after that the personal settings get imported. This is a workaround but it works for us.
What I would like to do is change the way pnshell does it's tasks. In other words I would like to map printers first and after that run script. As you can see when you're running pnshell it first runs added scripts and after that it maps printers.
DELL-Andrew W1
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December 6th, 2012 09:00
What the above does is run the printer tasks and then, once the printer tasks are complete, it runs all the other tasks.
If you setup a VBscript as a script task in the vworkspace management console, the script will run after the printers and can inject the settings back in.
ss.van.dellen
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December 6th, 2012 09:00
Thanks, sounds good. Next week I will give it a shot.
regards
Sijtze
DELL-Andrew W1
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December 6th, 2012 09:00
Hi Carl and Sijtze,
I've found a way to get this to work.
You do what Sijtze has done already. Eg, have 2 VBscript. One at logoff that captures the settings and one for login that reapplies the settings.
Then, modify c:\windows\system32\pnshell.cmd
You need to run it twice. The first time run JUST the printer part.
The second time, run EVERYTHING else
It should end up looking like this.
Rem *******************************************************
Rem Added by PMF to prevent app permissions
Rem from applying to admins
Rem *******************************************************
%windir%\SysWOW64\Ifmember Administrators
If Not ErrorLevel 1 Goto SkipAdmins
%windir%\SysWOW64\pnshell.exe /noapp /noshort /nohost /nocolor /nodrive /noenv /noother /nopol /noprog /noreg /noscript /noshort /notime /nowall
%windir%\SysWOW64\pnshell.exe /noapp /noprint
Goto SkipNonAdmins
:SkipAdmins
%windir%\SysWOW64\pnshell.exe /noapp /noshort /nohost /nocolor /nodrive /noenv /noother /nopol /noprog /noreg /noscript /noshort /notime /nowall
%windir%\SysWOW64\pnshell.exe /noprint
:SkipNonAdmins
Rem *******************************************************
Rem End of script
Rem *******************************************************
Give it a go