Vista - Permissions to manage printers and documents

How can I configure Vista Business so that a standard user account
automatically gets permissions to manage printers and documents for all
printers added to the system? After a printer is in stalled, an
administrator can change the permissions for the printer to allow this,
but I'm looking for a way for this to happen automatically. I've looked
through the local security policies and group policies and can't find
anything that will do this. Any ideas?

Regards,

Dave

Dave,

We are using the point and print policy to configure our machines so that
users don't have to elevate to install printers from our print servers.

GPedit.msc - User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Contorl Panel |
Printers | Point and Print Restrictions.

"Windows Vista clients can be configured to not show security warnings or
elevation prompts when users point and print, or when drivers for printer
connections need to be updated."

if you are talking local printers, you might need to use the device
installation policies @ Computer Configuration | System | Device
Installation | Device Installation Restrictions

Hope these help put you on the right path.

Josh
http://windowsconnected.com




"Dave R." <dwragle at drbsystems dot com> wrote in message
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> How can I configure Vista Business so that a standard user account
> automatically gets permissions to manage printers and documents for all
> printers added to the system? After a printer is in stalled, an
> administrator can change the permissions for the printer to allow this,
> but I'm looking for a way for this to happen automatically. I've looked
> through the local security policies and group policies and can't find
> anything that will do this. Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>

We are dealing with local printers (or network printers configured with
a local port). The biggest reason I need standard users to have Printer
Management rights for all printers that get installed is less to be able
to install drivers (we've got that pretty well handled), and more to be
able to delete printers that have been replaced so they don't continue
to show up in the printer list. None of those policies appear to help
with that, unless I'm not seeing something...

Any ideas / thoughts?

Regards,

Dave

"Josh Phillips" <josh@windowsconnected.com> wrote in message
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> Dave,
>
> We are using the point and print policy to configure our machines so
> that users don't have to elevate to install printers from our print
> servers.
>
> GPedit.msc - User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Contorl
> Panel | Printers | Point and Print Restrictions.
>
> "Windows Vista clients can be configured to not show security warnings
> or elevation prompts when users point and print, or when drivers for
> printer connections need to be updated."
>
> if you are talking local printers, you might need to use the device
> installation policies @ Computer Configuration | System | Device
> Installation | Device Installation Restrictions
>
> Hope these help put you on the right path.
>
> Josh
> http://windowsconnected.com
>
>
>
>
> "Dave R." <dwragle at drbsystems dot com> wrote in message
> news:462f3f54$0$97215$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...
>> How can I configure Vista Business so that a standard user account
>> automatically gets permissions to manage printers and documents for
>> all printers added to the system? After a printer is in stalled, an
>> administrator can change the permissions for the printer to allow
>> this, but I'm looking for a way for this to happen automatically.
>> I've looked through the local security policies and group policies
>> and can't find anything that will do this. Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>