1. Inside Printer Setup And Installation For Windows Vista
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Inside Printer Setup And Installation For Windows Vista
Adrian Lannin Program Manager Digital Documents Microsoft Corporation
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2. Agenda Driver installation and… Printer driver installation and…
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Agenda
Driver installation and…
User Account Control
Printer permissions
Driver Store
Group Policy for Devices
Printer driver installation and…
Printer Driver Packages
Localized Drivers
Point and Print
Cross-platform Installation
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3. User Account Control What is it?
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User Account Control What is it?
All users, including administrators, run as standard users
“Elevation” points are provided when the user needs to perform an operation that truly requires administrative rights
For example, running a setup application is a privileged operation
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4. User Account Control Printer install operations
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User Account Control Printer install operations
On Windows XP, installing a printer by plug and play or point and print does not require administrator rights
Installing a local printer driver requires administrator rights
Managing a printer, changing properties, sharing a printer is an administrator task
Running a setup application is an administrator task
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5. Printer Installation Rights
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Printer Installation Rights
In Windows Vista, a standard user can
Use the Add Printer Wizard (APW) to install a local printer
When there is an inbox driver available, and
When they are physically at the machine
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Permissions
The user that installs the printer is given the Manage Documents permission
With this permission, they can manage and delete a printer that they installed
Members of the administrators group also have this permission – when elevated
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7. WinHEC 2006
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Install Applications
A setup application should automatically request permission to run with administrator rights
Windows Vista uses heuristics to detect setup.exe
If Windows Vista can't determine what rights an application requires, it runs the application with user rights
The user must right-click and select Run as Administrator
Recommendation: Use an application manifest containing this attribute:
More information: MSDN Developer Center
<requestedExecutionLevel
level="requireAdministrator"
uiAccess="false" />
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8. WinHEC 2006
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Scenarios Enabled
A standard user can use the APW to install a printer using an inbox driver
Useful for non-plug and play installations
Useful when a standard user needs to print to a printer but they don’t have the driver – they can install a generic driver and get basic print capability
Setup applications automatically request administrator permission
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Driver Store What is it?
The driver store is a trusted cache of inbox and third party drivers, on the local hard disk
Third party drivers are copied from media to the driver store
We call the driver and the files the driver package
All drivers are installed from the driver store
Because drivers in the store are trusted, standard users may install them
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10. Printer Driver Install Phases
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Printer Driver Install Phases
Put the driver package in the driver store
Inbox drivers are already in the driver store
Driver is copied from media
Signing is checked
If everything is good, driver is copied into the driver store
This is a privileged operation!
Install the driver
Driver files are installed to their final location from the driver store
This is NOT a privileged operation. Any user can install a driver
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11. Driver Versions Driver store is a side by side store
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Driver Versions
Driver store is a side by side store
New driver package versions co-exist with old versions
Plug and Play ranking determines the driver selected for installation
Use the DriverVer directive in the INF to specify driver package version
Packages are not deleted when the drivers are deleted
Available for reinstallation
Pnputil.exe – driver store utility
Offline support
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12. WinHEC 2006
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Scenario Enabled
A print administrator adds a set of OEM printer drivers to the driver store on a corporate standard Operating System image
These drivers can be installed by a standard user because they are in the driver store
Easier deployment
Cost savings/no help desk assistance required
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13. Group Policy For Devices What is it?
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Group Policy For Devices What is it?
Two phases of device installation
Admin rights: Place the driver in the driver store
User: Install the driver
By using Group Policy for Devices, an administrator can delegate the privilege required for step 1 to a standard user
Why?
Majority of corporations will run locked-down desktops in the future
Amazing cost savings for IT departments
More reliable, secure systems
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14. Driver Installation Policy
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Driver Installation Policy
This policy allows digitally signed and trusted drivers to be installed by a standard user
Digitally signed by
Microsoft (e.g. WHQL, Windows)
A commercially acquired certificate
An internally generated or a test certificate
Trusted
The certificate that signed the driver is present on the machine, in the certificate store
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15. How To Delegate Printer Driver Installation Rights
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How To Delegate Printer Driver Installation Rights
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16. Driver Requirements Effective for INF-based driver packages
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Driver Requirements
Effective for INF-based driver packages
Printer vendors need to ensure that their drivers are available in driver packages that install via an INF
Many Windows XP printer drivers can be installed when this policy is enabled
Drivers that have co-installers may not work
The co-installer does not run until an administrator logs in
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17. WinHEC 2006
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Scenario Enabled
The print administrator uses group policy to delegate printer installation rights to an organizational unit (OU)
Members of that group put signed printer drivers into the driver store, when the driver was signed by a trusted source
The administrator can obtain a certificate and use it to sign driver packages
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18. Driver Packages What are they?
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Driver Packages What are they?
A Driver Package is an INF, all the files referenced by an INF, and the CAT file
A package must be signed
A common problem is that some INFs refer to files that do not exist
The driver store checks file dependencies when the driver is added, and will not import packages that have missing dependencies
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19. Printer Installation And Driver Packages
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Printer Installation And Driver Packages
Windows Vista tries to install packages in most cases
Local Installation
Remote Installation
Point and Print
Web Point and Print
When using packages is not an option, legacy mode is used
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20. Package Point And Print
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Package Point And Print
In package point and print, the complete driver package is put in the client's driver store
All components of the driver are installed on the client
Client installation checks signing
Result is a more secure form of point and print
Windows Vista to downlevel uses "legacy" point and print
Dependency handling requires an INF change
This is called being "package aware"
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21. Package-Awareness To be package-aware
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Package-Awareness
To be package-aware
Either: Ensure that all the files in the driver package are unique, and don't appear in other packages
And use the PackageAware keyword
Or: Isolate the shared files into a separate core INF
And use the core driver keywords
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22. Example INF Simple case
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Example INF Simple case
If a printer driver contains a unique set of files
Add the section highlighted below
[DDInstall Section]
CopyFiles=...
[PrinterPackageInstallation.x86]
PackageAware=TRUE
[DestinationDirs]
...
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23. Core File Dependencies
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Core File Dependencies
Shared files are placed in core printer drivers
Using Unidrv on Windows XP
Using Unidrv on Windows Vista
[DriverInstall]
DataFile=OEMABC.GPD
DataSection=UNIDRV_DATA
Include=NTPRINT.INF
Needs=UNIDRV.OEM,TTFSUB.OEM
[DriverInstall_Vista]
DataFile=OEMABC.GPD
CoreDriverSections="{D20EA372-DD ED8-A6335AFE79F0}, UNIDRV.OEM, UNIDRV_DATA, TTFSUB.OEM"
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24. Sample (Partial Sample)
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Sample (Partial Sample)
[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC BE10318}
Class=Printer
. . .
[Manufacturer]
; Models sections for x86 driver on pre-Windows Vista
[Company.NTx86]
"Device Description" = DriverInstall, PNP_ID, ABC_Printer
; Models section for x86 driver on Windows Vista and later
[Company.NTx86.6.0]
"Device Description" = DriverInstall_Vista, PNP_ID, ABC_UniDrv5_Printer
[PrinterPackageInstallation.x86]
PackageAware=TRUE
CoreDriverDependencies={D20EA372-DD ED8-A6335AFE79F0}
...
[DriverInstall_Vista]
DataFile=OEMABC.GPD
CoreDriverSections="{D20EA372-DD ED8-A6335AFE79F0}, UNIDRV.OEM, UNIDRV_DATA, TTFSUB.OEM"
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Scenario Enabled
Printer driver vendors can ensure the complete driver package is installed on the client during point and print
Driver signing is checked during remote installations, so package-aware drivers are trusted in more install scenarios
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26. Point and Print Interop support
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Point and Print Interop support
Windows Vista point and print completely interoperates with prior versions of Microsoft Windows
Legacy point and print (old)
Package point and print (new)
Windows Vista supports package point and print to Windows Vista clients
Windows Vista supports legacy point and print to pre-Windows Vista clients
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27. Point And Print Package-aware drivers
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Point And Print Package-aware drivers
Windows Vista
Package-aware
Windows Vista
Legacy
Legacy
Package-aware on Windows Vista
Package point and print to Windows Vista and later
Legacy to older versions
Windows XP
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28. Package-Aware Drivers
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Package-Aware Drivers
Making the driver package-aware is fairly straightforward
When the driver is installed on Windows Vista, the platform takes care of the interop differences down to Windows 2000
If the same driver package must be installed on Windows XP, then use Operating System version decorations to isolate the Windows Vista INF attributes
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29. Localized Drivers What are they?
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Localized Drivers What are they?
All drivers have localizable resources
Inbox Operating System components use .MUI files to store resources
Inbox printer drivers need embedded resources so print drivers have the localized language embedded
i.e. French printer DLLs contain French strings
But printer drivers also respect MUI, so installing a language pack results in a language switch on the local machine
Point and print clients still get the original language of the server
OEM drivers can embed multiple resources in the binary
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30. Scenario Enabled Language switching on the local machine
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Scenario Enabled
Language switching on the local machine
Windows Vista to Windows Vista point and print: Language switching works for driver packages
Point and print to downlevel machines works as before (client gets the server native language)
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31. Cross-Platform Installation What is it?
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Cross-Platform Installation What is it?
Machines share printers with other machines that have different processor architectures
The client needs to obtain the driver from the server, if it doesn’t have one locally
The server needs to host a driver for the client
Where does the hosting machine get the correct driver?
From the appropriate media
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32. WinHEC 2006
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Scenario Enabled
When the user shares a printer on an x86 computer with an x64 client, they need to add an additional driver for that client
The user inserts the x64 media, and installs the driver from the disk
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33. Call To Action Always make your driver package available as an INF
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Call To Action
Always make your driver package available as an INF
Enables so many scenarios!
Use the package-aware mechanism in Windows Vista
Package-aware drivers are preferred in point and print, they are trusted, and provide more client functionality
If you write a setup application, use an application manifest so the Windows Vista will automatically ask the user to run it with elevated privileges
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34. WinHEC 2006
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Call To Action
Understand your company logo goals and review new logo requirements
Basic and Premium
At WinHEC
Practice setup dev skills in Printer Installation Hands on Lab
Attend the Ask the Experts sessions
Attend related sessions
PRI019 Developing XPSDrv Print Drivers
DEV052 Installing Driver Packages in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn
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Additional Resources
Read the Printer Package Installation white paper on
Technical advice
Online
XPS Portal
Links to relevant blogs, whitepapers, specs
WHDC Printing documents
Print Server Information:
UAC development resources:
Windows Digital Documents Platform Team Newsletter
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