Im hoping I missed something. Setting up printer in Win 7 on a network and setting a printer as a defualt doesnt stick for all users like it used to in XP. A bunch of posts conveying some suprisingly complex answers using Rundll32 and printui.dll for this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189105
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624057(WS.10).aspx
Really? All that?
The couple posts I have seen were from people having issues getting GPO tomake the change. People havent been able to get it to stick.
We are in a larger institution where pritners are assigned static IP addresses. No print server. In XP admin account setup PC on a system and remained default for all other network users on that PC (unless changed by a user for thier profile).
Are these printers shared in the directory? Are they all installed to the same machine/desktop/server?
Have you tried a startup VBS using net.setdefaultprinter \\server\printer?
Or .bat in startup with :
ADD SHARES
net use [drive letter]: \\server\share
ADD PRINTER
net use \\server\printer
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