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You’re asking for a function that makes sense, on its surface. Why shouldn’t a printer configuration be settable to a default state other than what the printer manufacturer or Microsoft establishes?

However, this desired function is contradictory to how Windows printing is currently designed.

The printer manufacturer/Microsoft expectation is that when you direct your program to print, the next step is to tell the program what to print. Your expectation is that when you direct your program to print, that it will print what you want it to print. This time, you may want it to print the current page, but next time you might want the whole document. How will the program know which print range you want? Remember, hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of other people will be using the same type of printer and will have different requirements every time they print.

While the “remember my last printer settings” function might work for you most or all of the time, it might be annoying for others (possibly even a majority of others). Thus, this function might also require an enable/disable function, thus adding to its complexity. Many people have trouble with basic computer functionality, so it needs to be simple.

@rmallen07 – I strongly recommend you pick up a book on PowerShell, or better yet, take class (online classes are good for PowerShell). It will elevate your understanding of what is happening when you run any Exchange commands, and help you to build more complex commands to work on multiple mailboxes. If your organization is growing, or if you take greater advantage of Exchange features, this new skill will come into play quite often.

A nice added benefit is that PowerShell can be used for Active Directory administration, Windows server and workstation administration, SQL administration….the list goes on. The basic concepts are shared across each type of administration, with specific commands used for specific administrative tasks.

You can also use the Send-MailMessage command in PowerShell to send email-to-text from a scheduled task.

In any command-line mailer, you’ll need to know the SMS email address of the device you are sending text to.

It seems like you are concerned with backing up all features in Outlook that may have been changed by the user, along with the Outlook data. Most of those features are easily reset in a disaster recovery situation. Does the user utilize other applications that may have been customized and need backup?

You might consider a solution that will also preserve those settings, as well as the settings in the OS. I suggest drive imaging.

In cases like this, where standard troubleshooting techniques fail, I usually revert to non-standard troubleshooting.

While I believe this may be an MBR issue, I would also try to flash the BIOS.

Keep in mind that Google apps (including Maps) are optimized for use in Chrome.