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Nixphoe
Asked: 2013-03-05 08:47:10 +0800 CST

Targetting Printer GPO to a Subnet

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I'm aware that you can target specific printers via the individual Item-level targeting to a subnet.

I have about 20 printers that I would rather put the full group policy into maybe a WMI filter for a subnet 192.168.0.x. That way when a jr tech adds this and forgets to add the item-level targeting this will take care of it's self.

How would you target the full group policy object?

windows-server-2008-r2

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use a WMI filter, but it's really ugly and unintuitive. There's no way to do this with Item-Level Targeting, as it only applies to Group Policy Preferences, which are a subset of configurable GPOs.

    I always refer to this blog post when I need to do this instead of using Item-Level Targeting for some reason.

    The WMI query that you'll be filtering on (from the blog linked to above) is:

    Select * FROM Win32_IP4RouteTable
    WHERE ((Mask='255.255.255.255' AND NextHop='127.0.0.1')
    AND (Destination Like '10.0.0.%' OR Destination Like '10.0.1.%' OR Destination Like '10.0.2.%'))

    In the example that you've provided, you probably want to use something like:

    Select * FROM Win32_IP4RouteTable
    WHERE ((Mask='255.255.255.255' AND NextHop='127.0.0.1')
    AND (Destination Like '192.168.0.%'))

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