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Printer Port Configuration

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by jyimcse

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I need to reconfigure printer ports from HP Standard TCP/IP Ports to UNC name for printer on NT print server. Clients will already have the print drivers. Is there a way to create a batch file that deletes the HP port and creates a port to the UNCname automatically. Do not want to go to every workstation. Do not want to walk through process with all end users.

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by strong002

You could make reg files to do it, but you would be much better off sending each one of them an e-mail. Explaining to them the changes you made and how to delete there current printers and a shortcut to the printers on your server. If you browse to the server and right click on the printers folder you can create a shortcut to send them. Then all you need is to make sure that they understand your naming convention and tell them to right click on the printer that they would like to print to and select install from the drop down menu. This will save you time later on down the road when they want to add a different printer or re-install there printer because they blew up their profile.

by jyimcse

I need to configure the printers unknown to the users. I was thinking of a reg file that can be run on a script that would change the network path of the printers, but how can I take in the consideration of different combination of printers that the users have. It would be all printers or none.

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