I need an answer to the following as its going to stop me considering moving to W7 as I havent the inclination to install printers for everyone manually. On windows XP in a domain environment with a standard domain user account, they could add any network printer that was published in Active Directory, by double clicking on the required printer. (All smiles J) Windows 7, go through exactly same procedure, prompts do you want to install the driver runs through that, then prompts for and Admin user and password to complete!!! (Not smiles L) Domain users should have the ability to add networked printers. How do you get around that and why has MS broken something that previously worked fine.

That is because you install the printer on the Windows server (may be Windows Server 2003) is compatible with Windows XP but not compatible with Windows 7. You need to find the Windows 7 compatible driver. Then in Print Management mmc in the server, under Printer Servers\[server computer]\Drivers. The Windows 7 compatible driver needs to be designed for enterprise environment, can be found in the driver list or via its *.inf file. Otherwise we are not able to deploy the printer to Windows 7 clients and users need to install the driver manually.Arthur Xie - MSFT