Hi, At the start of the year I set up a windows 7 test lab at work. As students started using it recently, I noticed that they cannot install drivers for any of our network printers, it always asks for an elevated account. The windows 7 computers are getting the exact same policies as the Vista labs, however students can install printers in the vista labs fine. I have tried deploying the printers using group policy - this fails. I tried setting the 'Computer configuration > policies > Admin Templates > System > Driver Installation > Allow non-Administrators to install drivers for these devices' policy to enabled and added what I believe to be the printer device class, this also didnt work. Any ideas on how I can solve this problem? We use Windows Server 2008 R2 on our DCs and Windows Server 2008 Standard (32bit) on our member servers.

As the installation of network printer, you can try the following steps to modify the group policy.1.Open the GPMC.2.Open the GPO where the printer connections are deployed, and navigate to User Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, and then Printers.3.Right-click Point and Print Restrictions, and then click Properties. 4.Click Enabled.5.Clear the following check boxes: Users can only point and print to these servers Users can only point and print to machines in their forest 6.In the When installing drivers for a new connection box, select Do not show warning or elevation prompt.7.Scroll down, and in the When updating drivers for an existing connection box, select Show warning only.8.Click OK. After configuring these settings, all users are able to receive printer connections and the drivers to their user accounts by using Group Policy, without prompts or warning. Users receive a warning before updated drivers from the print server are installed, but they do not need to belong to the local Administrators group to install the updated drivers. For more details, you can refer to the following artical:Deploying Printers by Using Group Policyhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754699.aspx Good luck! John