<string id="AllowWebPrinting_Help">Determines whether Internet printing is activated on this server.
Internet printing lets you display printers on Web pages so that printers can be viewed, managed, and used across the Internet or an intranet.
Internet printing is an extension of Internet Information Services (IIS). To use Internet printing, IIS must be installed, and printing support and this setting must be enabled.
Note: This setting affects the server side of Internet printing only. It does not prevent the print client on the computer from printing across the Internet.
Also, see the "Custom support URL in the Printers folder's left pane" setting in this folder and the "Browse a common Web site to find printers" setting in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers.</string>
<string id="AutoPublishing">Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory</string>
<string id="AutoPublishing_Help">Determines whether the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes the computer's shared printers in Active Directory.
If you enable this setting or do not configure it, the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes all shared printers.
If you disable this setting, the Add Printer Wizard does not automatically publish printers. However, you can publish shared printers manually.
The default behavior is to automatically publish shared printers in Active Directory.
Note: This setting is ignored if the "Allow printers to be published" setting is disabled.</string>
<string id="CplPrinters">Printers</string>
<string id="CplPrinters_Help">Manages network printer configuration and publishing options.</string>
<string id="CustomizedSupportUrl">Custom support URL in the Printers folder's left pane</string>
<string id="CustomizedSupportUrl_Help">Adds a customized Web page link to the Printers folder.
By default, the Printers folder includes a link to the Microsoft Support Web page called "Get help with printing". It can also include a link to a Web page supplied by the vendor of the currently selected printer.
You can use this setting to replace the "Get help with printing" default link with a link to a Web page customized for your enterprise.
If you disable this setting or do not configure it, or if you do not enter an alternate Internet address, the default link will appear in the Printers folder.
Note: Web pages links only appear in the Printers folder when Web view is enabled. If Web view is disabled, the setting has no effect. (To enable Web view, open the Printers folder, and, on the Tools menu, click Folder Options, click the General tab, and then click "Enable Web content in folders.")
Also, see the "Web-based printing" setting in this setting folder and the "Browse a common web site to find printers" setting in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers.
Web view is affected by the "Turn on Classic Shell" and "Remove the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu" settings in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer, and by the "Enable Active Desktop" setting in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Desktop\Active Desktop.</string>
<string id="DomainDisplayPrinters_Help">This policy sets the maximum number of printers (of each type) that the Add Printer wizard will display on a computer on a managed network (when the computer is able to reach a domain controller, e.g. a domain-joined laptop on a corporate network.)
If this setting is disabled, the network scan page will not be displayed.
If this setting is not configured, the Add Printer wizard will display the default number of printers of each type:
Directory printers: 20
TCP/IP printers: 0
Web Services Printers: 0
Bluetooth printers: 10
If you would like to not display printers of a certain type, enable this policy and set the number of printers to display to 0.
<string id="DownlevelBrowse">Browse the network to find printers</string>
<string id="DownlevelBrowse_Help">Allows users to use the Add Printer Wizard to search the network for shared printers.
If you enable this setting or do not configure it, when users choose to add a network printer by selecting the "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer" radio button on Add Printer Wizard's page 2, and also check the "Connect to this printer (or to browse for a printer, select this option and click Next)" radio button on Add Printer Wizard's page 3, and do not specify a printer name in the adjacent "Name" edit box, then Add Printer Wizard displays the list of shared printers on the network and invites to choose a printer from the shown list.
If you disable this setting, the network printer browse page is removed from within the Add Printer Wizard, and users cannot search the network but must type a printer name.
Note: This setting affects the Add Printer Wizard only. It does not prevent users from using other programs to search for shared printers or to connect to network printers.</string>
<string id="EMFDespooling">Always render print jobs on the server</string>
<string id="EMFDespooling_Help">When printing through a print server, determines whether the print spooler on the client will process print jobs itself, or pass them on to the server to do the work.
This policy setting only effects printing to a Windows print server.
If you enable this policy setting on a client machine, the client spooler will not process print jobs before sending them to the print server. This decreases the workload on the client at the expense of increasing the load on the server.
If you disable this policy setting on a client machine, the client itself will process print jobs into printer device commands. These commands will then be sent to the print server, and the server will simply pass the commands to the printer. This increases the workload of the client while decreasing the load on the server.
If you do not enable this policy setting, the behavior is the same as disabling it.
Note: This policy does not determine whether offline printing will be available to the client. The client print spooler can always queue print jobs when not connected to the print server. Upon reconnecting to the server, the client will submit any pending print jobs.
Note: Some printer drivers require a custom print processor. In some cases the custom print processor may not be installed on the client machine, such as when the print server does not support transferring print processors during point-and-print. In the case of a print processor mismatch, the client spooler will always send jobs to the print server for rendering. Disabling the above policy setting does not override this behavior.
Note: In cases where the client print driver does not match the server print driver (mismatched connection), the client will always process the print job, regardless of the setting of this policy.</string>
<string id="ImmortalPrintQueue">Allow pruning of published printers</string>
<string id="ImmortalPrintQueue_Help">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.</string>
<string id="IntranetPrintersUrl">Browse a common web site to find printers</string>
<string id="IntranetPrintersUrl_Help">Adds a link to an Internet or intranet Web page to the Add Printer Wizard.
You can use this setting to direct users to a Web page from which they can install printers.
If you enable this setting and type an Internet or intranet address in the text box, the system adds a Browse button to the "Specify a Printer" page in the Add Printer Wizard. The Browse button appears beside the "Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network" option. When users click Browse, the system opens an Internet browser and navigates to the specified URL address to display the available printers.
This setting makes it easy for users to find the printers you want them to add.
Also, see the "Custom support URL in the Printers folder's left pane" and "Web-based printing" settings in "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Printers."</string>
<string id="KMPrintersAreBlocked">Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers</string>
<string id="KMPrintersAreBlocked_Help">Determines whether printers using kernel-mode drivers may be installed on the local computer. Kernel-mode drivers have access to system-wide memory, and therefore poorly-written kernel-mode drivers can cause stop errors.
If you disable this setting, or do not configure it, then printers using a kernel-mode drivers may be installed on the local computer running Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional.
If you do not configure this setting on Windows Server 2003 family products, the installation of kernel-mode printer drivers will be blocked.
If you enable this setting, installation of a printer using a kernel-mode driver will not be allowed.
Note: By applying this policy, existing kernel-mode drivers will be disabled upon installation of service packs or reinstallation of the Windows XP operating system. This policy does not apply to 64-bit kernel-mode printer drivers as they cannot be installed and associated with a print queue.</string>
<string id="NoAddPrinter">Prevent addition of printers</string>
<string id="NoAddPrinter_Help">Prevents users from using familiar methods to add local and network printers.
This setting removes the Add Printer option from the Start menu. (To find the Add Printer option, click Start, click Printers, and then click Add Printer.) This setting also removes Add Printer from the Printers folder in Control Panel.
Also, users cannot add printers by dragging a printer icon into the Printers folder. If they try, a message appears explaining that the setting prevents the action.
However, this setting does not prevent users from using the Add Hardware Wizard to add a printer. Nor does it prevent users from running other programs to add printers.
This setting does not delete printers that users have already added. However, if users have not added a printer when this setting is applied, they cannot print.
Note: You can use printer permissions to restrict the use of printers without specifying a setting. In the Printers folder, right-click a printer, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.
If this policy is disabled, or not configured, users can add printers using the methods described above.</string>
<string id="NoDeletePrinter">Prevent deletion of printers</string>
<string id="NoDeletePrinter_Help">Prevents users from deleting local and network printers.
If a user tries to delete a printer, such as by using the Delete option in Printers in Control Panel, a message appears explaining that a setting prevents the action.
This setting does not prevent users from running other programs to delete a printer.
If this policy is disabled, or not configured, users can delete printers using the methods described above.</string>
<string id="NonDomainDisplayPrinters_Help">This policy sets the maximum number of printers (of each type) that the Add Printer wizard will display on a computer on an unmanaged network (when the computer is not able to reach a domain controller, e.g. a domain-joined laptop on a home network.)
If this setting is disabled, the network scan page will not be displayed.
If this setting is not configured, the Add Printer wizard will display the default number of printers of each type:
TCP/IP printers: 50
Web Services Printers: 50
Bluetooth printers: 10
If you would like to not display printers of a certain type, enable this policy and set the number of printers to display to 0.</string>
<string id="PackagePointAndPrintOnly">Only use Package Point and print</string>
<string id="PackagePointAndPrintOnly_Help">This policy restricts clients computers to use package point and print only.
If this setting is enabled, users will only be able to point and print to printers that use package-aware drivers. When using package point and print, client computers will check the driver signature of all drivers that are downloaded from print servers.
If this setting is disabled, or not configured, users will not be restricted to package-aware point and print only.
</string>
<string id="PackagePointAndPrintServerList">Package Point and print - Approved servers</string>
<string id="PackagePointAndPrintServerList_Help">Restricts package point and print to approved servers.
If this setting is enabled, users will only be able to package point and print to print servers approved by the network administrator. When using package point and print, client computers will check the driver signature of all drivers that are downloaded from print servers.
If this setting is disabled, or not configured, package point and print will not be restricted to specific print servers.</string>
<string id="PhysicalLocation_Help">Specifies the default location criteria used when searching for printers.
This setting is a component of the Location Tracking feature of Windows printers. To use this setting, enable Location Tracking by enabling the "Pre-populate printer search location text" setting.
When Location Tracking is enabled, the system uses the specified location as a criterion when users search for printers. The value you type here overrides the actual location of the computer conducting the search.
Type the location of the user's computer. When users search for printers, the system uses the specified location (and other search criteria) to find a printer nearby. You can also use this setting to direct users to a particular printer or group of printers that you want them to use.
If you disable this setting or do not configure it, and the user does not type a location as a search criterion, the system searches for a nearby printer based on the IP address and subnet mask of the user's computer.</string>
<string id="PhysicalLocationSupport_Help">Enables the physical Location Tracking support feature of Windows printers.
Location tracking lets you design a location scheme for your enterprise and assign computers and printers to locations in your scheme. Location tracking overrides the standard method of locating and associating users and printers, which uses the IP address and subnet mask of a computer to estimate its physical location and proximity to other computers.
If you enable Location Tracking, a Browse button appears beside the Location field in the Find Printers dialog box. (To go to the Browse button, >>>> run the Add Printer Wizard in the Printers folder, and select the network printer path. <<<<) The Browse button also appears on the General tab of the Properties dialog box for a printer. It lets users browse for printers by location without their having to know the precise location (or location naming scheme). Also, if you enable the "Computer location" setting, the default location you type appears in the Location field.
If you disable this setting or do not configure it, Location Tracking is disabled. Printer proximity is estimated based on IP address and subnet mask.</string>
<string id="PointAndPrint_Restrictions">Point and Print Restrictions</string>
<string id="PointAndPrint_Restrictions_Help">This policy setting controls the servers that a client machine can connect to for point and print, and the security prompts for Windows Vista machines. The policy setting applies only to non Print Administrators clients, and only to machines that are members of a domain.
When the policy setting is enabled, the client is restricted to only point and print to a list of explicitly named servers.
Windows Vista clients can be configured to not show security warnings or elevation prompts when users point and print, or when drivers for printer connections need to be updated.
When the policy setting is not configured:
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 client machines can point and print to any server in their forest.
Windows Vista client machines can point and print to any server.
Windows Vista machines will show a warning and an elevation prompt when users point and print to any server.
Windows Vista machines will show a warning and an elevation prompt when a driver for an existing printer connection needs to be updated.
When the policy setting is disabled:
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 client machines can point and print to any server.
Windows Vista client machines can point and print to any server.
Windows Vista machines will NOT show a warning or an elevation prompt when users point and print to any server.
Windows Vista machines will NOT show a warning or an elevation prompt when a driver for an existing printer connection needs to be updated.
The 'Users can only point and print to machines in their forest' setting only applies to Windows XP SP1 (and later service packs) and Windows Server 2003.
</string>
<string id="WarnAndElevateOnUpdate">Show warning and elevation prompt</string>
<string id="NoWarningNoElevationOnUpdate">Do not show warning or elevation prompt</string>
<string id="PrinterDirectorySearchScope">Default Active Directory path when searching for printers</string>
<string id="PrinterDirectorySearchScope_Help">Specifies the Active Directory location where searches for printers begin.
The Add Printer Wizard gives users the option of searching Active Directory for a shared printer. If you enable this setting, these searches begin at the location you specify in the "Default Active Directory path" box. Otherwise, searches begin at the root of Active Directory.
This setting only provides a starting point for Active Directory searches for printers. It does not restrict user searches through Active Directory.</string>
<string id="PrinterServerThread_Help">Announces the presence of shared printers to print browse master servers for the domain.
On domains with Active Directory, shared printer resources are available in Active Directory and are not announced.
If you enable this setting, the print spooler announces shared printers to the print browse master servers. As a result, shared printers appear in the domain list in the Browse for Printer dialog box in the Add Printer Wizard.
If you disable this setting, shared printers are not announced to print browse master servers, even if Active Directory is not available.
If you do not configure this setting, shared printers are announced to browse master servers only when Active Directory is not available.
Note: A client license is used each time a client computer announces a printer to a print browse master on the domain.</string>
<string id="PruneDownlevel">Prune printers that are not automatically republished</string>
<string id="PruneDownlevel_Found">Only if Print Server is found</string>
<string id="PruneDownlevel_Help">Determines whether the pruning service on a domain controller prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished whenever the host computer does not respond,just 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.</string>
<string id="PruneDownlevel_Never">Never</string>
<string id="PruneDownlevel_NotFound">Whenever printer is not found</string>
<string id="PruningInterval_Help">Specifies how often the pruning service on a domain controller contacts computers to verify that their printers are operational.
The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers. If a computer does not respond to the contact message (optionally, after repeated attempts), the pruning service "prunes" (deletes from Active Directory) printer objects the computer has published.
By default, the pruning service contacts computers every eight hours and allows two repeated contact attempts before deleting printers from Active Directory.
If you enable this setting, you can change the interval between contact attempts.
If you do not configure or disable this setting the default values will be used.
Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.</string>
<string id="PruningPriority_Help">Sets the priority of the pruning thread.
The pruning thread, which runs only on domain controllers, deletes printer objects from Active Directory if the printer that published the object does not respond to contact attempts. This process keeps printer information in Active Directory current.
The thread priority influences the order in which the thread receives processor time and determines how likely it is to be preempted by higher priority threads.
By default, the pruning thread runs at normal priority. However, you can adjust the priority to improve the performance of this service.
Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.</string>
<string id="PruningRetries_Help">Specifies how many times the pruning service on a domain controller repeats its attempt to contact a computer before pruning the computer's printers.
The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers to verify that the printers are still available for use. If a computer does not respond to the contact message, the message is repeated for the specified number of times. If the computer still fails to respond, then the pruning service "prunes" (deletes from Active Directory) printer objects the computer has published.
By default, the pruning service contacts computers every eight hours and allows two retries before deleting printers from Active Directory. You can use this setting to change the number of retries.
If you enable this setting, you can change the interval between attempts.
If you do not configure or disable this setting, the default values are used.
Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.</string>
<string id="PruningRetryLog_Help">Specifies whether or not to log events when the pruning service on a domain controller attempts to contact a computer before pruning the computer's printers.
The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers to verify that the printers are still available for use. If a computer does not respond to the contact attempt, the attempt is retried a specified number of times, at a specified interval. The "Directory pruning retry" setting determines the number of times the attempt is retried; the default value is two retries. The "Directory Pruning Interval" setting determines the time interval between retries; the default value is every eight hours. If the computer has not responded by the last contact attempt, its printers are pruned from the directory.
If the "Log directory pruning retry events" setting is enabled, the contact events are recorded in the event log. If this setting is not configured or is disabled, the contact events are not recorded in the event log.
Note: This setting does not affect the logging of pruning events; the actual pruning of a printer is always logged.
Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.</string>
<string id="PublishPrinters">Allow printers to be published</string>
<string id="PublishPrinters_Help">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".</string>
<string id="RegisterSpoolerRemoteRpcEndPoint">Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections</string>
<string id="RegisterSpoolerRemoteRpcEndPoint_Help">This policy controls whether the print spooler will accept client connections.
When the policy is unconfigured, the spooler will not accept client connections until a user shares out a local printer or opens the print queue on a printer connection, at which point spooler will begin accepting client connections automatically.
When the policy is enabled, the spooler will always accept client connections.
When the policy is disabled, the spooler will not accept client connections nor allow users to share printers. All printers currently shared will continue to be shared.
The spooler must be restarted for changes to this policy to take effect.</string>
<string id="VerifyPublishedState">Check published state</string>
<string id="VerifyPublishedState_Help">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.
