March 8

After combing the net, it looks like there are several policies that should be configured in order to properly allow non-administrator users to install printers

1. Computer Configuration (Administrative Templates): “Point and Print Restrictions”—>Set to Disabled (This seems to be the most important one, users kept receiving UAC prompts until I configured this policy)

2. Computer Configuration: “Devices: Prevent users from installing printer drivers”—>Set to Disabled

3. Computer Configuration (Administrative Templates): “Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes” —> Define appropriate set up classes as found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff553426(v=vs.85).aspx

As always, I’m anything but omniscient, many thanks to the following sites for helping put all this together:

1. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/67e34b3c-8e53-4a38-9e99-92c3dd53e38a/

2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff553426(v=vs.85).aspx

3. http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1269-stop-the-windows-7-prompts-for-printer-install

4. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/7/archive/2011/07/11/allowing-standard-users-to-install-network-printers-on-windows-7-without-prompting-for-administrative-credentials.aspx