Printers deployed via GPO - users' default printers switch back...

Windows 2008 R2 Server (remote office server acting as a DC, GC and print server); clients run Windows 7 Enterprise x64 (users have roaming profiles with folder redirection)
I deployed 5 network printers using Group Policy (per machine): Printer1, Printer2...Printer5
Printer1 was the very first printer queue created on the server and deployed to users via Group Policy.
Users login for the first time and get all five network printers, and Printer1 becomes their default printer automatically (which is fine for their first login). However, when users change their default printer, in this case Printer1, to some other printer
- eventually their default printer goes back to Printer1. Is there a way to make sure the new default printer stays and it doesn't go back to Printer1?

Okay, this doesn't seem to be working for me.
So, I'm still deploying 5 network printers to all users - the office has 5 printers and all
users need to have access to all 5 printers.
The first network printer queue I created on the server (e.g. Printer1) is assigned as the default printer queue for all users - that's fine for the users' first login attempt. Eventually the users at this location select their own default printer queue,
let's say Printer3. At the end of the day, users log out of the network, when they log back in their computers, the next day, the default printer queue is set back to Printer1 instead of Printer3 - which is what the user needs to have.
Originially, I wasn't using GPP to deploy these printers. I was using Printer Management Console and
Deploy with Group Policy... and I assigned this to an AD Site Group Policy.
Based on Brano's suggestion, I just fail to see how those settings will allow the policy to remember the user's new default printer queues (e.g. Printer3).

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I hope this here helps someone who has lost a lot of nerves and a lot of time due to the deployment of Adobe creative cloud applications. I stil hope that there is going to be a better and easier way to deploy this.
Excuse me for the bad english, good luck with your deployment and maybe we can get Adobe a bit smarter from our all experience to make us a good deployment method.
Toni

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Please try to purchase from https://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-NL&event=displayProduct&ca tegoryPath=/Applications/AcrobatProX
You do have an Adobe ID with the Email provided here.
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I have been distributing quicktime via group policy using tips that have been posted above. However today when I tried using my normal method to distribute quicktime 7.3 via group policy, it stopped working and I was getting this in the application event log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
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fyi
Some feedback in SR 3-6322025251 ...
After some on-going discussions with Product Managers, they don't believe this is expected behavior in the 3 questions (q4), (q5) and (q6).
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Hi,
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Hello,
thank you very much for your answers.
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Hi, I tried to deploy the upgrade packet for Users from FF 3.6.23 to 7.0.1 via GPO.
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But some PCs can upgrade some PCs can not. (Other software deploy is OK, only FF)
Is there any guys also has the problem like this?
I doubt if any patch not install or reg not config?
Or something else may make this happen?

Why are you updating to such an ancient version as Firefox 7.0.1? The latest supported version of Firefox 13. You shouldn't use versions older than that as they have been dropped from support and have known and public vulnerabilities.
The only other vresoin that has some support if Firefox ESR. [http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/].

Deploying Java via GPO issues

Here's a bit of background. I typically run the Java installer and get the msi's from the %appdata% folder.
Installation typically works well, however, in some cases it takes upwards of 1 hour to uninstall the old version and reinstall the new versions being pushed out.
From the research I've done it has to do w/ a missing installer.dll file. I'm assuming that windows is waiting on a timeout to occur before it proceeds which is what is causing the delay.
Does Oracle have a document that talks about how to properly deploy java in an enterprise environment. Is there a specific area that i can download an official MSI for Java rather than having to fish it out of %appdata%?
It's becoming really inconvenient to have users wait 1 hour for java to deploy every time we need to push an update out.
Any advise?
Thanks in advance.

Stop me if you've heard this one before -I'm trying to deploy TightVNC to workstations on the network via GPO and foundthislovely guideon how to achieve such a feat.I've followed it to a tee making sure that all of the folders containing the scripts and install files are located on a network path to which all domain computers have access to read and execute to, and I'm still having problems trying to get the script to run.I have written WMI filters correctly to sort out 32 bit and 64 bit machines.I've tested the script manually on a local workstation and confirmed the code is good.I've made sure the GPO is being applied to the machine.Still no luck :/
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