Use the script below to add a network printer, you can simply dump this into a txt file, rename to a .VBS and change the printer addresses (these need to be shared of course!)
\nThe last bit of code should stop the “Error:\u00a08007007B –\u00a0the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect” as it will keep retrying the connection to the printer share if the network is slow and timming out etc.<\/p>\n
Last bit is to drop the script into the DC netlogon and add to group policy! BAMM!<\/p>\n
Dim net MapPrinter \"\\\\server\\printer\"<\/p>\n Sub MapPrinter(strPrinter) Use the script below to add a network printer, you can simply dump this into a txt file, rename to a .VBS and change the printer addresses (these need to be shared of course!) The last bit of code should stop the “Error:\u00a08007007B –\u00a0the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect” as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vbs","category-windows-server-2003","category-windows-server-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-6l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
\n
\nSet net = CreateObject(\"WScript.Network\")
\nnet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection \"\\\\server\\printer\"
\nnet.SetDefaultPrinter \"\\\\server\\printer\"<\/p>\n
\nOn Error Resume Next
\nSet objNetwork = CreateObject(\"WScript.Network\")
\nboolConnected = False
\nintAttempts = 1
\nWhile boolConnected = False And intAttempts <= 5
\nErr.Clear
\nobjNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection strPrinter
\nIf Err.Number <> 0 Then
\nintAttempts = intAttempts + 1
\nWScript.Sleep 2000
\nElse
\nboolConnected = True
\nEnd If
\nWend
\nEnd Sub
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"