I work in the tech dept of a school district. I'm not super familiar with active directory and group policy yet, but know the basics.
Physically, each school has a bunch of printers throughout the building.
In active directory, we have containers by school, then by room, and in each room we have the PCs. Each room has its own GP, assigning the PCs all printers and designating the default printer for that room.
So for example, say the middle school has 10 printers, and 10 rooms. There is a separate gpo for each room, and that gpo installs all 10 of the buildings printers and sets the default printer.
Ok, on to the question...I installed a new printer on the network. How can I add that printer to multiple gpo's? I don't want to import gpo settings bc that will overwrite the default printer setting for each room; and I don't particularly want to manually edit each gpo to add this new printer (though I believe that's how its been done in the past before I arrived).
Any suggestions on adding a single 'create printer' line to a selection of multiple group policy objects? Thanks!
