Policy

Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryPrinters
Supported onWindows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

Determines whether the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes the computer's shared printers in Active Directory. If you enable this setting or do not configure it, the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes all shared printers. If you disable this setting, the Add Printer Wizard does not automatically publish printers. However, you can publish shared printers manually. The default behavior is to automatically publish shared printers in Active Directory. Note: This setting is ignored if the "Allow printers to be published" setting is disabled.

Internal name
AutoPublishing
Policy ID
2e980c22a659
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\Wizard\Auto PublishingREG_DWORD
1
0

Policy elements

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