Client's printer's redirection.
Dear fellow geeks,I work with an infrastructure setup comprising of 2 terminal servers and around 500+ users connecting to it using remote desktop.server 1 is primary with windows server 2012 and...
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I am trying to migrate print queues from a Windows server 2008 R2 print server to a Windows server 2012 R2 print server. I've followed all the technet articles on how to do this and I get all the...
View ArticlePrinters mapping using CNAME with purpose of DR
Hello,I am trying to achieve sort basic and manual level or DR by using DNS CNAME records to redirect to a print server.Here is the scenario:printserver1.domain.com and printserver2.domain.com.Both...
View ArticleAdd printer - Windows cannot connect to the printer - Operation failed with...
Server OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (All updates installed).Client OS: Windows 10 Enterprise (1709)(1703), Windows 7. (All updates installed). After recent windows server updates, it is no...
View ArticleIPP Printer setting Configure Internet Port: Security Options
When adding an IPP Printer, you can configure the port to specify explicit credentials to connect and print to that printer. Does anyone know where those credentials are stored on Windows 7 and 10? I...
View ArticleProblem with multiple instances of shared printers being installed on client...
Hello,We have Windows Server 2012 and clients using Windows 8. We've been having some printer problems for awhile now that I haven't been able to figure out for the life of me. The main problem is...
View ArticleDisable the "print to file" Checkbox
For security reason, we would like to disable the "print to file" checkbox in the default print dialog box. Is it possible to do this at a machine level ?David
View ArticlePrintService Operational log dissapears and PrintService Debug is in its place
Hello.We have enabled the PrintService Operational and Admin logs on all of our print servers. It is part of our build. The logs have been operating as expected since the build of the server(s)...
View ArticleInstall Printer using GPO from none-Microsoft print server
Greetings,I am trying to install a network printer. I am using PaperCut as printing server. Any idea how can install a printer from none-microsoft print server?
View ArticleMigrate windows 2003 print server to 2016 print server
Hi,We are trying to migrate the current windows 2003 print server in cluster to windows 2016 r2 high availability. My ask here is,1. Is it possible to migrate print service role from 2003 to 2016...
View ArticleDeploying a new Server 2012 print server
Hi,I have been tasked with deploying a new Server 2012 print server. This will be my first one as we had software that would take care of this for us (Printer Logic). I'm not sure why we went this...
View ArticleWindows Server Print Management. Show only the printers a specific User is...
We have a network with about 500 printers. We want to transition to Print Management. The team wants the following access behavior:1) Add printers to the print manager2) Set the authorized groups for...
View Article2008 R2 print spooler hung after July 2018 Windows updates
Print spooler service hung starting after July 2018 Windows updates on 2008 R2 servers only.Restarting the server temporarily resolves issue. Spooler service hangs approx once a day only impacting 2008...
View ArticleMicrosoft-Windows-PrintServer/Admin and /Operational Logs are not generating...
From some months ago, the following Printer Service logs are not generating any new event. The logs affected...
View ArticleEvent ID 307 as trigger for scheduled task with one exception
Hi all,I have a scheduled task on Windows which runs every time an user prints something. The trigger is the Event 307 of PrintService.It works fine. But I need it to run when the user uses any of the...
View ArticleHave to move Spool Queue Daily
On a daily basis I'm getting tickets logged. Moving the Spool Queue to another folder fix's the issue until the next day.Server is 2012 running multiple print queues.Daily one section is reporting...
View ArticleWhat's the difference between printbrm.exe and PrintUIEntry
As we know, we can save something of printers byrundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /n M126 /Ss /a "D:\1.dat"orprintbrm.exe /b /f D:\. Of course, I know that the one is calling an exe with arg from cmd,...
View ArticleRedirected Printers
I have all my network printers on my domain controller (DC01) and then they are mapped to my 2 Terminal Servers (TS4 & TS5). However, some users are getting "redirected" printers so they have...
View ArticleGroup Policy Shared Printers
I have all my network printers setup on my Domain Controller. I want to share them on my 2 Terminal Servers with Group Policy. Do I have to add the printers to the Terminal Servers first or just add...
View ArticlePrintui.dll and Windows Server 2016
I have a script that uses printui.dll to install printers as machine printers, using /ga. The script is a visual listing of the printer servers printers and the user chooses which one they want and...
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