Deploying Direct IPP Printers via GPO in a small AD environment
Hi everyone, I recently took over IT support for a company—it fell on my shoulders overnight because our previous IT guy unexpectedly passed away—and I inherited an Active Directory environment with about 25 PCs. We're slowly migrating to Entra ID, but for the past few hours, I’ve been stuck trying to deploy a printer to users via GPO—yeah, I know, printer deployment is always a pain. It's not like I can't just walk over to those few machines and add it manually, but it's driving me crazy if I can't get it done through GPO. You get me, right?
So, here's the deal: on my own PC, I added an IPP printer using port 631 via direct communication—there's no dedicated print server in the office. However, I just can't get it to deploy using GPO. The driver is the built-in Microsoft IPP Class Driver, so it should be present on all client machines. I've tried pushing it as a TCP/IP printer under both User and Computer Configurations, but no luck.
For the printer path, I've tried using http://, ipp://, and IP_ADDRESS/ipp/print. I might be configuring this in the completely wrong place, though, because the next tab mentions TCP/IP RAW ports, whereas I'm using IPP.
Could you guys at least point me in the right direction?