This is a major problem many of our customers run into. With our self-service printer installation, end users are able to install near-by printers with one click from an intuitive floor plan map. Because we are integrated with AD, they only see the printers they are authorized to print to and don't need any additional admin rights. We do all this without the need for print servers, which empowers you to manage your entire printer environment (make changes, update and push drivers, manage queues, etc.) from a single administrator console. More information on the portal here: To see how one of our customers empowered their end users and eliminated printer installation help desk calls, click here: .
Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes. Can’t install printer on Windows 7 machine. August 10, 2010. For users to be able to add their own print drivers you will have to use a GPO to edit the Driver Installation policy for your domain. It is located here: Computer Configuration Policies Administrative Templates System Driver Installation. The setting is called 'Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these devices setup classes'.
As for Printers, I haven't used (and wasn't aware of) the GPO setting you refer to. In the environment I manage, I configured the setting Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Printers Point and Print Restrictions. The first section of the description reads: This policy setting controls the client Point and Print behavior, including the security prompts for Windows Vista computers. The policy setting applies only to non-Print Administrator clients, and only to computers that are members of a domain I enabled the policy setting, added the FQDN of the print server(s) in the first field and configured both security prompts to ' Do not show warning or elevation prompt'.
Changing network settings, including enabling/disabling WiFi, on a Windows box can't be done as an ordinary user, if I'm not mistaken. Usually there's a hardware or soft switch for that. If that's not an option to you, you will probably need to add the users to the local ' Network Configuration Operators' group.