Tag: Computer Configuration

Determines whether the pruning service on a domain controller prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished whenever the host computer does not respondjust as it does with Windows 2000 printers. This setting applies to printers running operating systems other than Windows 2000 and to Windows 2000 printers published outside their forest. The Windows pruning service prunes printer objects from Active Directory when the computer that published them does not respond to contact requests. Computers running Windows 2000 Professional detect and republish deleted printer objects when they rejoin the network. However because non-Windows 2000 computers and computers in other domains cannot republish printers in Active Directory automatically by default the system never prunes their printer objects. You can enable this setting to change the default behavior. To use this setting select one of the following options from the “Prune non-republishing printers” box: — “Never” specifies that printer objects that are not automatically republished are never pruned. “Never” is the default. — “Only if Print Server is found” prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished only when the print server responds but the printer is unavailable. — “Whenever printer is not found” prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished whenever the host computer does not respond just as it does with Windows 2000 printers. Note: This setting applies to printers published by using Active Directory Users and Computers or Pubprn. vbs. It does not apply to printers published by using Printers in Control Panel. Tip: If you disable automatic pruning remember to delete printer objects manually whenever you remove a printer or print server.

Determines whether the domain controller can prune (delete from Active Directory) the printers published by this computer. By default the pruning service on the domain controller prunes printer objects from Active Directory if the computer that published them does not respond to contact requests. When the computer that published the printers restarts it republishes any deleted printer objects. If you enable this setting or do not configure it the domain controller prunes this computer’s printers when the computer does not respond. If you disable this setting the domain controller does not prune this computer’s printers. This setting is designed to prevent printers from being pruned when the computer is temporarily disconnected from the network. Note: You can use the “Directory Pruning Interval” and “Directory Pruning Retry” settings to adjust the contact interval and number of contact attempts.

Directs the system to periodically verify that the printers published by this computer still appear in Active Directory. This setting also specifies how often the system repeats the verification. By default the system only verifies published printers at startup. This setting allows for periodic verification while the computer is operating. To enable this additional verification enable this setting and then select a verification interval. To disable verification disable this setting or enable this setting and select “Never” for the verification interval.

Determines whether the computer’s shared printers can be published in Active Directory. If you enable this setting or do not configure it users can use the “List in directory” option in the Printer’s Properties’ Sharing tab to publish shared printers in Active Directory. If you disable this setting this computer’s shared printers cannot be published in Active Directory and the “List in directory” option is not available. Note: This settings takes priority over the setting “Automatically publish new printers in the Active Directory”.