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Wes Sayeed
Asked: 2019-10-01 10:19:18 +0800 CST

Faster way to add IP scopes to Item Level Targeting?

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I have a GPO with printers mapped via the user preferences. Each printer needs to be item-level targeted only to computers in a specific IP range. I have a list of about 92 ranges that need to be added to a dozen or so printers.

The only way I know of to add an IP range is to do it through the GUI by clicking New Item -> IP address range, then type each of the start and end addresses of the range, then hit Item Options -> OR (default is AND), then hit OK... 1 range at a time... for 12 printers.

There's no way in hell I'm doing this by hand!

Is there a way to script this? Or at least add ranges in a batch?

windows

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  1. Best Answer

    I can only give you a partial answer:

    The Preferences are XML files. You can find the corresponding file here: \\YOUR_DOMAIN\SYSVOL\DOMAIN_NAME\Policies\ID_OF_THE_GPO\Machine\Preferences\Printers\Printers.xml

    and you'll find something like that: XML Definitions of a Printers GPP File

    As you can see, the filters are in the <Filters> node: so, you can create them with a script/editor for example (I know that this is not necessarily the easyiest part...)

    EDIT:

    To update the GPO version in AD, I recommend that, once you did your modifications in the XML file: open the GPO, change and restore any setting in a user preference, and then close the Group Policy Editor. Thus, the AD will increment the version of the GPO and the clients will properly download the new version.

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