Does Sysprep Remove Printer Drivers
Posted : adminOn 5/11/2018Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a tool called the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) built into windows which you will use to remove the printer drivers.
Volleyball World Cup Venus Evolution Isolate. We currently have a number of Windows Server 2012 R2 RDSH servers and also Windows 8.1 desktops that have been deployed using sysprep images. The original server/ pc image is fine but any that have been deployed using an image have an issue with printers.
When a user logs on and looks in printers it seems to show every printer that was mapped for other users when that PC/ server was originally syspreped. If you go to a select a printer within an application none show. This is confusing for our users as 6 instances of a network printer show in some cases. Its almost like the sysprep process has converted any network mapped printer to a local and this shows in anyones account who logs on. See the attached screenshot of the printers in system, if I delete these they just re-appear after about 30 seconds. Please could someone advise if these is a way of removing these rogue printer mappings.
I have tried deleting in system and also removing the print drivers with no success.
With a windows 7 syspreped image I can found a method that has not failed yet. I have only 2 admin images, one 32bit and one 64bit and one base 32bit academic image. I discovered by placing any missing drivers I have to install post sysprep back on my master machine in the windows inf structure that model computer will then find the driver by itself next time. Under windows inf I created on subdirectory called tmccdrivers and then created subdirectories for each model. I put only the drivers I had post install in here to keep it's size down. Under most of the models I have audio, video. Then some I need mei heci tpm.
I even have 10 models of laptops this works for. Currently my images suppport 18 pc/laptop models from gateway, dell, hp and lenovo. When we get a new model staff deploy's a image to it. They find the missing drivers and place them on a share named imagedrivers by model type directories. I have a midlevel task that copies this directory structure to c: windows inf tmccdrivers.
English Grammar Today Ronald Carter Pdf Free Download. They deploy the image again to that model and the drivers are found without me having to create a new master immediatly. When I update the master (usually monthly) I move the drivers from the share to the master to save copy time during imaging. Once I did have to copy the drivers for a video card from the temp folder vs the install folder, something to do with compressed files if I remember.
Because our master is hardware independant I now base all my images on software/licensing and they work in any classroom even if all the machines are not the same model.