We are running Server 2008 64bit and Print Manager, in the setup of the printers when I did not use the check box to auto detect the print driver to use the system created a WSD printer port based on iPv6. We wanted a TCP/IP port so I created the TCP/IP
port and then attached it to the printer. My problem is that I cannot delete the WSD printer port. It is not used by any printer but the system will not allow the delete
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WSD port delete
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Have Multiple Print Queues or Personal Print Queues for one Network Printer on 2012 Print Server
We have a Windows 2012 Print Server with various printers that staff are all connected to.
I'm wondering if there is any kind of way staff can have their own personal print queue, or a place to store all of their print jobs until they are ready to print them all at once.
I won't bore you with the details, but staff are submitting a lot of little print jobs at the same time tot he same printer so we will end up with a stack of mixed jobs for various staff. I'm trying to figure out a way to have all of a staff's print jobs print all at once so they are together.
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Print Server config 2012R2
I have a functioning 2012 r2 RDS farm with 3 servers.
I added a 2012 r2 print server and used GPO to configure it as a print server. I then created a gpo that i would use to push the printers down to the rds servers (in print manager, deployed to computer policy...)
I also setup each printer on the print server using the v.4 class drivers built in as each model printer i have is represented.
rebooted each of the rds servers and got my new network tcpip printers.
Problem: the correct printer drivers did not get pushed to the printers on the rds server
In other words when i look on the print server at "Xerox 7855 Mail Room" i see the 7800 series class driver i selected. On rds i see "Xerox 7855 Mail Room" but the driver is the HP Color Laserjet A4/Letter PCL6 class driver
Did i miss a config that should PUSH the correct driver?
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Migrating Print services from 2008 to 2012 Server
A general question...
I have a 2008 server running print services, this one is called Print. I've created another server running 2012 R2 called PrintTemp and have imported all of Print's printers and plotters. I'd like to simply shutdown Print, rename PrintTemp to Print. Would this work correctly, and if not are there any other steps I need to ensure the migration is sucessful.
Stew
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Is there a limitation on amount of Fax Modems/Channels in windows 2012 R2 Standard edition?
Is there a limitation on amount of Fax Modems/Channels in windows 2012 R2 Standard edition?
In windows Server 2008 Standard edition was limited to 4 Modems/Channels, what about Windows Server 2012 R2?
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How to get model of printer with POWERSHELL?
I have 100 printers on my printserver, I need comandlet to get models jf this printers. Like that Name Printer - Model.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 print server permissions
I am working on delegating print server management functions to our Helpdesk\Printer group to allow them to manage all aspects of the print server without being local admins.
Now I will try to make this short and to the point, I have been working on this for some time now and have it as close as I am going to be able to get I have it all scripted so it can be run against several machines at once as we have over a hundred to roll these changes to eventually.
The one thing I cannot seem to figure out is how to set the “Print Server Properties” using a command, I want to add the appropriate groups to the security tab that way when new printers are added it will pick up the security settings when its installed. Not to be confused I am not talking about the security settings for individual printers I already have that scripted to change security settings on the existing printers using the setprinter.exe command.
This is the only thing left holding me up, I need to be able to automate this I am hoping it will be an easy solution that I have simply overlooked. Thanks
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Migrate Print Server
Hi all
We are going to migrate print server from windows 2008 to windows 2012 r2 .
Please advice the step to be follow and what are the consideration should be done.
Regards
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Windows Server 2008 R2 print server permissions
Hello,
Currently there are two other threads about this issue, both with the same name as this. I was wondering if I could get the setprinter.exe tool that is mentioned by Alan Morris in each of those threads.
I believe my problem is exactly the same, in that I want a tool that will automate the process of me going into each print server's security tab and adding a group I want with specific permissions there so that when new print queues are added on that server, their security tab inherits the group permissions that I have set in the server's tab. The setprint.exe tool should do exactly this, right?
I already have a way of adding a specific group to each print queue on every server already, that is not the issue. i am specifically asking for a way to automating the process of adding the group to the print server itself. There are many print servers, and it would be a waste of valuable company time if I had to go in and do this manually for each server.
My email is jcgeer@hormel.com, and I would greatly appreciate the assistance.
Also, if it would be possible to either send along any documentation for that tool and how to use it for the desired task I wish to implement, or an guide that you could also point me to, that would be fantastic.
Thanks in advance!
Jacob100
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Plotter Print Issue with large files
Hi
We have one Mutoh RJ-900C plotter in our company connected to LAN.
Earlier we have had this one installed/shared on a Windows Server 2008 server and everything has been fine.
We have changed to a new Windows Server 2012 R2 printserver and have installed/shared the plotter with exactly the same driver version (3.1.1.0). This is the only one I found on Mutohs website (Had to log in to download drivers) and its from 2013.
The issues from the new server are a bit difficult to explain in words but the main issue is that during print it suddenly stops in the middle of a map and usually it then starts over, printing the same map from the beginning, again and again until we cancel. The colors are also bad (for example blach may be dark blue) and black text is not as sharp as it should be, and so on.
We have also tried to install the plotter locally (with ip) on one Windows 7 workstation. It seems to work better than from the server, colors seems OK, it printed approx. 90% of the map and again stopped. (From the server it stopped much earlier than 90%, maybe after 40-50%).
One thing to notice is that we have more issues like this with bigger files. The fileformat is PDF, printed from Foxit Reader. The PDF was only 5 Mb, but when I checked in the print job window it sent 399 Mb to the plotter, so it seems to convert something
during printprocessing, and this also takes time. Suddenly I also read "Print error" in the queue on the Windows 7 machine and a bit later the plotter stopped printing.
Are there any settings for max processing/print size on Win 7 / 2012 R2, but not on 2008 or what can cause this.
Suggestions?
Regards
Tony
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finding available printes slow
Hi,
Iam running windows 2008 r2 RDS, while using print services on office. It is very slow.
Regards, Saikrishnna K
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Xerox Printers become unresponsive
I am working on migrating off our Windows 2003 print server to a Windows 2012 server. In our office we use Xerox ColorQube 8880DN printers and are experiencing issues with the printers the have queues on the 2012 server locking up and becoming unresponsive. In the print server the common response is printer is in an error state. When the printer is unresponsive I cannot view it’s web interface and the only option is to restart the printer. On the 2012 server I have both the 64 and 32 bit Xerox drivers installed and the driver is the same version. So far I’ve found no information in the event viewer that has helped solve this issue. I have a Custom view / Server roles / Print and document services setup but have found no errors.
On our 2003 print server we have queues for 4 of these printers and we never have a problem. I could move all our queues back to the 2003 server but I’m working on retiring the server since the OS is end of life. All clients are Windows 8.1 Pro
PC’s.
Open to suggestions on how to trace and resolve this issue.
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GPO for Print Server Security settings?
Hi forum,
I am setting up a specific OU for print servers and have a GPO assigned to this.
As we need to apply certain roles to some AD groups we have a need to reflect this to the Print Server Security settings so it gets reflected to the print queues.
Has anyone found a way to have a GPO to alter the Security settings under the Print Server porperties?
Thanks,
David
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Server2012R2 - Printer settings don't apply to all users
Hi Everyone,
Our company is in the process of migrating off all 2003 server due to EOL support. Now i have deployed a new file/print server at one of the clients with Windows Server 2012R2.
I have setup their printers with all the needed customizations in place and deployed them via a GP Preference. However, the custom settings that I have setup on the printers aren't being taken over on the client computer. It just jumps back to the default settings. Also, when another administrator of our team logs on to the same server and goes into print manager to check the printer settings, they see the default settings of the printer and not how i have set them up.
I've tried several things like first setting up the settings before sharing. And also tried setting up with the built-in admin account but the same thing happens.
I'm getting clueless on what can be the cause of this so i'm hoping one of you geniuses can help me out here ?
Many thanks in advance all the help i can get is much appreciated !
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Print Server migration (Windows Server 2008R2)
Currently we are planning to migrate the all the print queues from one print server (A) to another Print server (B). these are domain members and both are Windows Server 2008R2 Standard Sp1.
Print Queues:
All these Print queues are Listed in AD, user used to connect them by browsing the Active directory.
Now, we are migrating the all the print queues with to another Print server name (B). But don’t want any action end user.
The below propose action will help in this case or not.
By creating the cname record (A) to pointing older server name to new server (B) will fix the issue.
Thanks and Regards,
Ravi Ch.
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Server 2012r2 Fax how to save fax to unique names
Server 2012r2. How to setup Fax to name all inbound fax as unique names?
I have a customer that moves faxes as they come in to the inbound folder and after they move it then next fax has names fax00000. I need it to always be unique names.
Thanks
Alan
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Spooler Service Hangs on Sever 2008 R2 When Connecting to 400+ Printers
Hello,
We have a strange setup where a number of our servers are setup to run queries against a database and print the reports. Each server has just over 400 printer connections. When refreshing devices and printer, cycling the spooler, or rebooting the machine devices and printers seems to go blank and hang. The spooler server hangs, and can't be stopped; it crashes with a timeout error. Explorer also eventually crashes.
The print drivers are all set to isolation mode, and bidirectional is off.
I've connected them using con2prt.exe scripts, and \\printserver\share connect. I've set all print processors except 1 xerox printer to WINPRINT. I've ran through the instructions on countless forums.
It seems to be related to the fact that they are all connected through shares, as exporting the printers from the print server and importing them to the Background Job servers works without any issue. There are 30 of these background servers that we run in prod though, and management of printer changes would be a nightmare. It also seems to be freaking out after about 100-150 printers have been connected. If I cut the NIC and refresh shell:printersfolder, it shows all of the printers attempting to "initialize" at the same time. The amount of handles open spikes each time I refresh devices and printers, when all printers are connected there are about 7,000 handles open.
Am I doing something to cause this by turning on driver isolation for all of the printers? Is there some ominous limit I'm reaching in number of terminal services, or printer shares? Please help I've been troubleshooting this for 2 weeks and am losing my mind.
Thank you!
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File Server DR Strategy with DFS Replication data.
Below is the existing Setup:
Configured File and Print Servers (Windows Server 2008R2 Standard Sp1 - Physical) in 5 Branch locations.
Server Names: AFS1, BFS2, CFS3, DFS4, EFS5.
No backups configured for the Branch Location file servers, instead configured a DFSR replication to Central Hub Servers (Windows Server 2008R2 Standard Sp1 - VMs). This hub servers are two and configured with Failover Clustering file Servers and attached 20 TB Storage.
Users will access the data directly on the Branch location File Servers and will do the modifications, these branch File server's data will be replicating to Central Hub Clustered servers using the DFSR Replication after the business hours.
Backup will be performed on Hub Servers on daily basis using the backup tool called EMC Networker.
The idea behind, in case of data deleted or file server crashed in the Branch Locations, data can be recovered from two locations, one is Central Hub Server’s storage and Second one from backup tapes.
How the data shared: Under “F” drive, created a Top Folder called A (Branch Name) and under “A” folder, created the Share folders to users with required Shared and NTFS permissions. Data type is group data.
Configured DFSR Replication to replicate “A” folder data to Central Hub Storage server’s drive “T” under this path T\AFS1\A. AFS1 is only having the group date and other branch servers are having the User home folders data as well. All these 5 File Servers data is replicating to T Drive, using same method as AFS1 server.
We are currently working on implementing a DR strategy as below manner.
Let’s say, the branch location file server completely crashed and data wiped, in this scenario, will build a base server with Window Server 2008R2, install the file and Print services. Copying the data from Central Hub Drives. Configuring the permissions.
So far good,
But, when we compare the permissions, share permission are not replicated to T Drive on Central Hub Server, NTFS permissions replicated exactly from the Branch File server along with additional permissions, i.e. Creator Owner with Special permissions, these permissions seems to be inherited from the T Drive default security permissions.
Removing the Creator Owner permission from T drive default permissions will cause for any permissions issue. Please guide me.
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Ravi Ch
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cannot add domain printer in Windows Server 2008 R2 / "Windows cannot connect to the printer." / Error 0x00000002
I have
1. DOMAIN-SERVER: Windows Server 2012 R2 64bit Domain
2. PRINTER-SERVER: Windows Server 2012 R2 64bit Print Server joined to domain
3. DOMAIN-PRINTERS: 4 Printers on the Print Server (all of them happen to be Brother Laser printers, running generic built-in Windows Server 2012 drivers)
4. REMOTE-SERVER: Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit Remote Desktop Session Host joined to domain (Running Citrix XenApp Fundamentals)
I am trying to add the domain printers to my Windows Server 2008 R2 box.
1. Start -> Control Panel -> Devices and Printers
2. Add a printer -> Add a network printer
3. All four printers are discovered very quickly and show ON PRINTER-SERVER
4. I click "Next" to add a printer
5. Dialog window shows: "Looking for a driver" / "Downloading the driver" / "Finishing the installation"
6. Error window then pops up before finishing:
Connect to Printer Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation failed with error 0x00000002
7. Of the four printers, one of them gives me error 0x00004005 instead
8. I used Process Monitor to try and figure out what might be happening, but there are way too many entries for me to figure out exactly where the problem is. Out of 33,000 lines produced during just one attempt to add a printer, the vast majority show success, but I still have about 6,500 lines showing BUFFER OVERFLOW, FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS, NAME COLLISION, NAME NOT FOUND, NO MORE ENTRIES, NO MORE FILES, NO SUCH FILE, PATH NOT FOUND, and REPARSE
Which of those 6,500 lines could give me the clue to solve this problem? No idea
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Printer connections GPO missing in windows 2012 r2.
I have a windows server 2012 r2 dc, running with a windows 2012 r2 file/print server.
printers are mapped correctly with GPO, however this is a new server that replaced a windows 2003 dc/fp.
on the old server someone edited the "default domain policy" (don't get me started on that) and added printers via the printers connections gpo. Now in the new server 2012 environment those gpos have been brought over and i cant get rid of the printers.
see attached image for printers i want to remove.
however when i edit the default domain policy, that connection is no longer there. i cant edit it. arrrrhhggghgh.
the "Printer connections" are missing.
now of course everytime a user tries to delete these printers they get "access is denied", and its driving them and me nuts.
any thoughts?
Cheers,
Todd.
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