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r00tb00t
Posts:79
 | | 12/29/2008 3:59 AM |
| Hey List,
For those interested; I, and my lead technician have spent about three
of our evenings at home trying to get our printer deployment working
via Group Policy. The problem we were facing is that the
pushprinterconnections.exe binary file that comes with the Print
Server/Management Role for a 2003 Domain Controller is 64 bit (My DC
is running Windows 2003 SP2 R2 x64) and all my clients are
XPProSP3x86.
Why the hell Microsoft didn't chuck the 32 bit binary in with the 64
bit OS as well as the 64 bit binary I will never know especially since
xp 64 didn't come out the same time as 32 bit XP, what where they
thinking we were going to do? Purchase Server 2003 x86 just for that?
Anyway, finally got my hands on it after downloading various different
images from the Microsoft download center and various virtual machines
etc and trawling through them.
I have uploaded it to my rapid share account so it will (hopefully)
always be there for download. Grab it. Archive it. You will only every
need it once to get the ball rolling but its so freaking hard to come
buy you just can't believe it! (Hours of looking online reading about
how many people all get via extracting it form an image but not one
single person shared it back!!!!)
Help your self, give it to everyone you know. Rejoice, 32 bit
pushprinterconnections.exe is here!
http://rapidshare.com/files/177770274/ppc.exe
James 
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| sbradcpa
Posts:496
| | 12/29/2008 10:23 AM |
| MPECS Inc. Blog: x86 PushPrinterConnections.exe a must for the
Technician's Thumb Drive!:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/11/x86-pushprinterconnectionsexe-must-for.html
Yeah, on SBS 2008 we've hit that issue and thought it was dumb.
James Bensley wrote:
> Hey List,
>
> For those interested; I, and my lead technician have spent about three
> of our evenings at home trying to get our printer deployment working
> via Group Policy. The problem we were facing is that the
> pushprinterconnections.exe binary file that comes with the Print
> Server/Management Role for a 2003 Domain Controller is 64 bit (My DC
> is running Windows 2003 SP2 R2 x64) and all my clients are
> XPProSP3x86.
>
> Why the hell Microsoft didn't chuck the 32 bit binary in with the 64
> bit OS as well as the 64 bit binary I will never know especially since
> xp 64 didn't come out the same time as 32 bit XP, what where they
> thinking we were going to do? Purchase Server 2003 x86 just for that?
>
> Anyway, finally got my hands on it after downloading various different
> images from the Microsoft download center and various virtual machines
> etc and trawling through them.
>
> I have uploaded it to my rapid share account so it will (hopefully)
> always be there for download. Grab it. Archive it. You will only every
> need it once to get the ball rolling but its so freaking hard to come
> buy you just can't believe it! (Hours of looking online reading about
> how many people all get via extracting it form an image but not one
> single person shared it back!!!!)
>
> Help your self, give it to everyone you know. Rejoice, 32 bit
> pushprinterconnections.exe is here!
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/177770274/ppc.exe
>
> James
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V-
> PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++
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| darren
Posts:304
| | 12/29/2008 11:20 AM |
| James-
You might also want to simply forego this approach and use GP Preferences
instead to manage printer mappings.
Darren
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CTO & Founder
SDM Software, Inc.
"The Group Policy Experts"
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-----Original Message-----
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:18 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] PushPrinterConnections x86
MPECS Inc. Blog: x86 PushPrinterConnections.exe a must for the
Technician's Thumb Drive!:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/11/x86-pushprinterconnectionsexe-must-for.html
Yeah, on SBS 2008 we've hit that issue and thought it was dumb.
James Bensley wrote:
> Hey List,
>
> For those interested; I, and my lead technician have spent about three
> of our evenings at home trying to get our printer deployment working
> via Group Policy. The problem we were facing is that the
> pushprinterconnections.exe binary file that comes with the Print
> Server/Management Role for a 2003 Domain Controller is 64 bit (My DC
> is running Windows 2003 SP2 R2 x64) and all my clients are
> XPProSP3x86.
>
> Why the hell Microsoft didn't chuck the 32 bit binary in with the 64
> bit OS as well as the 64 bit binary I will never know especially since
> xp 64 didn't come out the same time as 32 bit XP, what where they
> thinking we were going to do? Purchase Server 2003 x86 just for that?
>
> Anyway, finally got my hands on it after downloading various different
> images from the Microsoft download center and various virtual machines
> etc and trawling through them.
>
> I have uploaded it to my rapid share account so it will (hopefully)
> always be there for download. Grab it. Archive it. You will only every
> need it once to get the ball rolling but its so freaking hard to come
> buy you just can't believe it! (Hours of looking online reading about
> how many people all get via extracting it form an image but not one
> single person shared it back!!!!)
>
> Help your self, give it to everyone you know. Rejoice, 32 bit
> pushprinterconnections.exe is here!
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/177770274/ppc.exe
>
> James
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
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> GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V-
> PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++
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| r00tb00t
Posts:79
| | 12/30/2008 1:54 AM |
| "MPECS Inc. Blog: x86 PushPrinterConnections.exe a must for the
Technician's Thumb Drive!:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/11/x86-pushprinterconnectionsexe-must-for.html"
Yeah I saw that when I was originally looking for the binary. I don't
have a blog my self but if you do, blog away! (although after sending
this mail out and uploading the binary the word "copyright" popped
into my head? I hope this is ok with Micro$oft?) If you do blog it you
may want to check yourself first?
2008/12/29 Darren Mar-Elia <darren@sdmsoftware.com>:
> James-
> You might also want to simply forego this approach and use GP Preferences
> instead to manage printer mappings.
>
> Darren
Not really much of a GP guru, but could you enlighten me as to how you
achieve this? I would be interested to see as I still haven't quite
got my printer setup working yet (driver problem?)
Thanks,
James.
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| sbradcpa
Posts:496
| | 12/30/2008 1:58 AM |
| Let's just say Philip already checked and Lawyers are indeed an issue.
James Bensley wrote:
> "MPECS Inc. Blog: x86 PushPrinterConnections.exe a must for the
> Technician's Thumb Drive!:
> http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/11/x86-pushprinterconnectionsexe-must-for.html"
>
> Yeah I saw that when I was originally looking for the binary. I don't
> have a blog my self but if you do, blog away! (although after sending
> this mail out and uploading the binary the word "copyright" popped
> into my head? I hope this is ok with Micro$oft?) If you do blog it you
> may want to check yourself first?
>
>
> 2008/12/29 Darren Mar-Elia <darren@sdmsoftware.com>:
>
>> James-
>> You might also want to simply forego this approach and use GP Preferences
>> instead to manage printer mappings.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>
> Not really much of a GP guru, but could you enlighten me as to how you
> achieve this? I would be interested to see as I still haven't quite
> got my printer setup working yet (driver problem?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
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> GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V-
> PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++
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