On an enterprise network I am trying to deploy windows 7 machines. However when a user tries to install a printer it askes for elevated rights and gives an access denied error. Group policy has been set to allow the user to install the printers and currently works for vista machines, just not windows 7. What do I have to do to get this to work?I have tried the article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725938.aspxand http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753269.aspx

What is the model of the printer? Does it work if the users manually add the shared printer? I suspect that this is a driver compatibility issue. Currently Microsoft puts compatible drivers on Windows Update website, only Windows 7 computers can download the drivers and install. If domain users can install printer driver with the following method, we can confirm that the policy works properly, and the issue should be the driver on the server side. 1. Click Start, click Control Panel and double click Devices and Printers.2. Click Add a Printer. 3. Select "Add a local printer". 4. Select "Create a new port". Choose "Local Port" as the type of the port. 5. In the box "Enter a port name", type the address as the following format. \\[IP address of the host computer]\[The Share Name of the printer] Then click Next. 6. Choose the correct driver in the driver list. If no available driver, click the button Windows Update, wait for the process finishes and then look for the driver again.7. Finish the installation.Arthur Xie - MSFT

We had a similar problem on our network when testing Windows 7, using Server 2008 SP2 not R2.The settings that it talks about in those articles under User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers and Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Printers caused some problems because the computer configuration settings are not there under SP2. So instead we changed the computer configuration using gpedit.msc on the Windows 7 local machine to enable the point and print restrictions, and changedWhen installing drivers on a new connection to Do not show warning and finally the When updating drivers for an existing connection to Do not show warning. These settings allowed a user to add a printer and install the driver, without administrator rights.To add this to all the computers on your network you can edit the registry setting under HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PackagePointAndPrint, export itand then package it into an msi via something like advance installer, or create a startup script.You can alsoapply this registry setting in server 2008 via group policy. If you go to your relevant group policy object, select edit and find Computer Configuration\Preferences\Windows Settings\Registryyou can either simply add a registry entry or find one on a computer on your network. The wizard is quite helpful with this as well. I found that setting the action to update meant that the computers picked up the setting properly.