How to deploy network printers via GPO without print server directly to printer address?

Question

Group Policies

Good afternoon.
There is a printer with a network port. There is a client (with a network port). There is a domain. All on windows.
The policy found the distribution of only a printer from a pool of printers published in AD, or shared printers on any hosts. But you can simply connect a network printer via IP or DNS with a policy?

Answer 1

Good afternoon, from personal experience - I strongly recommend adding the print server role to one of the servers - it is much more convenient and easier to manage printing. In order to do something with printers through policies - in any case, you need to publish the printer in AD - and this is very convenient to do on the print server, in addition - you can flexibly deploy printers using policies. Without a print server, you can try to deploy the printer via GPP .