Stupid printer tricks / http://www.flickr.com/photos/tstadler/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I’ve been sorting through our group policies and rewriting them ready for a switch over to Windows 7. During my thorough investigation it turns out our current policies overlap a fair bit, and it’s no wonder we have trouble tracking down why something we’re sure we’ve set in GP turns up unset on logon.

So my big project has been going through our settings one by one, and deciding which of these categories they fall into:

1. Common Computer settings — all the computers should get these as they are vital to the function of the network, or are likely to break something if they aren’t explicitly set for our staff and students.
2. Common User settings — everything else that just can’t be set in the Computer policy.
3. Staff Settings
4. Student Settings
5. Printers

The interesting trick I’ve learned about the printer GPs though is how to apply printers based on the computer’s OU without using local loopback!
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