Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Printers

Description

Determines whether the Add Printer wizard automatically publishes the computer's shared printers in Active Directory.

If you enable this policy or do not configure it, the Add Printer wizard automatically publishes all shared printers.

If you disable this policy, the Add Printer wizard does not automatically publish printers. However, you can publish shared printers manually.

Important

This policy is ignored if the Allow printers to be published policy is disabled.