Cannot Right Click Terminal Services Cannot Set Default Printer

[xrees]

This was a good one.

The Terminal Server OU was put in a LOCKED DOWN state, before we came
on site.
Users could barely do anything from the Start Menu.
Which for most cases is a good thing.
Unfortunately, one of things they couldn't do was set their DEFAULT
PRINTER. When they tried to right-click on a printer to set it to
default, the context menu would NOT appear.
Ouch.

So after hunting the Internet for every possible fix for why Terminal
Server Clients couldn't set their DEFAULT PRINTER, the answer actually
lay in something deeper (and simpler) than that. They actually
couldn't RIGHT CLICK on anything.

So after browsing thru the LOCKDOWN policy for the OU, I found the
following entry:

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
Explorer\Remove Windows Explorer's Default Context Menu - Enabled

Disabled it, giving the users the ability to RIGHT-CLICK on things.
Including being able to set the DEFAULT PRINTER.

LMK

 

[TP]

Re: Cannot Right Click Terminal Services Cannot Set Default Printer

Hi,

Thanks for posting your experience.

Another way that users can set the default printer is to
choose File - Set as Default Printer. This assumes that
you have not set the group policy option which removes
the file menu.

-TP

xrees wrote:
> This was a good one.
>
> The Terminal Server OU was put in a LOCKED DOWN state, before we came
> on site.
> Users could barely do anything from the Start Menu.
> Which for most cases is a good thing.
> Unfortunately, one of things they couldn't do was set their DEFAULT
> PRINTER. When they tried to right-click on a printer to set it to
> default, the context menu would NOT appear.
> Ouch.
>
> So after hunting the Internet for every possible fix for why Terminal
> Server Clients couldn't set their DEFAULT PRINTER, the answer actually
> lay in something deeper (and simpler) than that. They actually
> couldn't RIGHT CLICK on anything.
>
> So after browsing thru the LOCKDOWN policy for the OU, I found the
> following entry:
>
> User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
> Explorer\Remove Windows Explorer's Default Context Menu - Enabled
>
> Disabled it, giving the users the ability to RIGHT-CLICK on things.
> Including being able to set the DEFAULT PRINTER.
>
> LMK