Scripted Printer Config Issue

[Gibbon]

Hey All,

Sticky one for you.

I have an urgent request (Arent they all, ha!) to roll out some new printer parameters to our desktop machines.

Problems is... I cant find out where they are stored... not in a file, not the registry, not anywhere... odd.

Even tried exporting the printers settings using;

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n "OurPrinter" /a "c:\file.dat" u

and

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n "OurPrinter" /a "c:\file.dat" u

to reinstall them, doesnt work.

Best way to explain is to show you:

See where I have TEXTGOESHERE, we need to find someway of getting that change on all our machines.

I have looked everywhere, and i just cant find the answer at the moment.

If we can find out where that info is stored, we can change it easy.

Anyone?

TIA!

Gib

[cluberti]

This is actually stored in the registry, but it's stored as a binary blob in (in this example) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Generic / Text Only\PrinterDriverData\TTY DeviceConfig. If you want to push this out, you will need to push it out as a .reg change, and it would have to be as an admin (so perhaps a machine startup script). The key would have to write to a pre-existing printer, and all of the configurations would need to be the same in this key (and I'm not sure it'll even work, as I don't have a box to test this on).

[Gibbon]

Thank You!

Wicked stuff.