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How to deploy printers, mapped drives and settings with Optanik

Save printers with drivers, map network drives, and push configuration policies to computers, groups or domain users, with drift fixed automatically.

Optanik Device Configuration pushes printers, mapped drives and hundreds of other settings to Windows, macOS and Linux computers, and keeps them applied.

Add a printer in Optanik

Open Printers, name the printer, choose an IP printer or a print server share, and enter its address. Raw printing on port 9100 works for most printers.

  • Windows: upload the maker's driver package, reuse a driver from another printer, or copy the driver from a PC where that printer already works.
  • macOS: Macs usually print driverless with AirPrint, or you can upload a driver if the printer needs one.
Printers · watch from 9:03 in the full Optanik tutorial

Deploy a printer with Optanik

Press Deploy and choose who gets it: single computers, endpoint groups, or domain users and groups. Domain user settings follow the person to any domain PC. Offline computers pick it up when they reconnect, and when you edit a printer later, every computer that has it gets the change.

Map a network drive with Optanik

Mapped Drives does the same for Windows network drives. Enter the share path, pick a drive letter, and add a File Explorer label if you like. Connect as decides how it signs in: with each person's own Windows sign-in, or with a stored account saved for every user. Then deploy it to computers, groups or domain users.

Mapped Drives · watch from 9:47 in the full Optanik tutorial

Build an Optanik configuration policy

Device Configuration has a catalog of hundreds of settings. Press New policy, name it, and add settings from the catalog. The operating systems it covers are worked out from the settings you pick, and settings apply top to bottom. Ready-made policies include rolling out the Keyring browser extension and putting the Optanik apps on every desktop.

  • Priority decides which policy wins when two set the same thing. A policy assigned straight to a computer always beats one that comes through a group.
  • Check now tests every assigned computer, and Apply now pushes the settings right away.
  • Secrets holds the Wi-Fi passwords, share credentials and starting passwords that settings need. They're encrypted and never shown again once saved.
Device Configuration · watch from 7:54 in the full Optanik tutorial

How Optanik fixes configuration drift

Every four hours Optanik re-applies anything that changed, checks again, and keeps one ticket listing any computer that still isn't compliant.

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