Microsoft is set to bid farewell to third-party printer drivers offered via Windows Update. This change, scheduled for a staggered rollout, will let printer manufacturers harness the UWP development framework to create Printer Support Apps available through the Microsoft Store. Microsoft explained that the upcoming change will eliminate the need for printer manufacturers to distribute...
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HP has acknowledged that its several printer models are vulnerable to a new critical buffer overflow bug that can potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). This latest security flaw is being tracked under CVE-2022-3942, and it was first discovered by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative team. As noted in a post by Bleeping Computer,…
In this second part of Tom Finnis’ article on deploying printers on your network he explains how to assign your printers to specific users and computers using Group Policy and the Active Directory. He also covers in depth how to avoid the most common problem encountered, the lack of built-in support for GPO printer deployment in Windows XP