As part of our migration from SBS2k3 to SBS2k8 (and a completely different domain) I elected to move all of our printers to a central print server and push them out to the client PCs via a group policy rather than manually walking to each PC and setting each printer up. For non-Vista PCs, this requires the client to run PushPrinterConnections.exe on startup (or login, depending on how you set up your GP) to actually set up the printers.

In a typically Microsoft fashion, the gurus at Redmond ignored the feedback on the beta SBS 2008 forums and neglected to put an i386 version of PPC.exe on the x64 server installations, and as none of our client PCs run 64bit Windows XP, this caused some problems (read: nothing worked).

After many hours of cursing, googling and reading the words “get the 32bit version of ppc.exe from a Windows Server 2003 R2 32bit CD” (real helpful for those of us who do not have one) I came across this post: http://www.activedir.org/ListArchives/tabid/55/forumid/1/postid/32125/view/topic/Default.aspx where an incredibly awesome guy has shared the 32bit version of PushPrinterConnections.exe.

Thank you muchly James!