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Installing printers via GPO

February 19, 2015, 9:17 am
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Hi guys,

I'm trying to deploy a printer using a GPO and I wonder what's the difference between deploying "USER|Computer\Policies\Windows Settings\Printer connections" and "USER|Computer\Preferences\Control Panel Settings\Printers"

By the way, my colleague isn't able to see "USER|Computer\Policies\Windows Settings\Printer connections", any idea why?

Lastly, this printers are installed and listed on another AD domain and forest. Everything is properly set up so my users can access that other domain and its resources, and I can manually go to \\printserver and connect to these printers. This server is running 2003 and the client workstations are windows 7. Anything I should bear in mind? I'm planning to migrate this printers to a new shiny win 2015 but that's not my priority right now.

Thanks a lot


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MS_XPS_PROC and MS_XPS_HYBRID_PROC Issues

February 19, 2015, 7:05 am
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Hi All,

I've got a 2012 R2 box that is being setup as a print server for a K-12 school. The school is *finally* moving away from their current 2003 boxes and things seemed alright during setup of the 2012 R2 box; however, when I turned on the GPOs that create the new mappings and people started printing I started noticing tons of errors in the PrintService\Admin log. One that kept appearing was a 372 Event -- my users were getting denied  access to the print processor. After some digging, I found that granting write access to the Everyone group on C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS should clear up the problem. Unfortunately, I keep seeing the 372 errors after granting write access to Everyone so I kept digging. If I look at the corresponding events in the PrintService\Operational log I can see that any job that is processed using the MS_XPS_PROC or MS_XPS_HYBRID_PROC is denied. 

These processors are not listed in the C:\Windows\System32\spool\prtprocs\ directory or any of its sub-folders. 

The default printer for the server was set to the Microsoft XPS Writer so I took a shot in the dark and changed the default printer while also removing the XPS writer and its associated driver from the machine. I'm still seeing the same behavior though. 

What is truly odd is that when examining the driver that is used on the jobs that are failing in Print Management -- the driver lists winprint as its associated Print Processor. It is unfortunately happening on many printers and I've been working this issue for a few weeks now without any luck.

Can anybody point me in the right direction? Why would the driver deviate from the winprint processor and attempt to use the XPS processors? Is there anywhere I can view the ACL for the MS_XPS_PROC and MS_XPS_HYRBID_PROC processors?  

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WMI request to get clustered Print Server queues

February 20, 2015, 3:07 am
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Hi guys,

I'm working on authoring Management Pack (MP) for SCOM 2012 for Print Servers and have several questions concerning clustered Print Servers, specifically clustered Print Server queues. I would appreciate if you could shed a light on this.

Currently Print Server MP requests Print Server queues fromWin32_Printer wmi branch, but this works only with non-clustered queues instances.It looks like for clustered instances I have to request another branch - Win32_ClusterShare. The wmi request is supposed to be called on target computer (cluster node) and used to discover (and as a result to create appropriate objects in SCOM) queues instances.

So I have a bunch of questions regarding:

1. Should "select * fromwin32_clustershare wheretype='1 or 2147483649'" be requestedon each cluster node or is itsomething common for cluster group (several cluster nodes)? 

2. Will "select * fromwin32_clustershare wheretype='1 or 2147483649'" contain enough information describing print queues on cluster / cluster node?

3. Win32_ClusterShare has two types which might be potentially used for cluster print queues discovery:

1='Print Queue'

2147483649='Print Queue Admin'

http://www.powertheshell.com/reference/wmireference/root/cimv2/win32_clustershare/

Which one should be used?

4. Is it possible that on one specific cluster node print queues information is returned by both Win32_Printer and Win32_ ClusterShare? I think, not, but would like to clarify.

5. Will requesting "select * fromwin32_clustershare wheretype='1 or 2147483649'" work for both Windows Server 2008 (R2) and Windows Server 2012 (R2)?

I’m wondering this, because I found changes in print role clustering implementation.

Below is the link how to install Print Server on Windows Server 2012:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134159.aspx

In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was available Print Server Cluster Role:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771509(v=ws.10).aspx

But it looks like Print Server clustering on Windows Server 2012 is performed differently:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj556311.aspx

Thanks in advance.

Igor Savchenko, VIAcode Consulting LLC (http://www.viacode.com/)

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Need to pull more than 30days offline printers list from Windows 2008 R2 print server

February 20, 2015, 9:08 pm
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In our environment we have windows 2008r2 Print server, in which we need to pull printers list which is more than 30 days any idea? any Script? 
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How do I remove per-user network printer connections ?

February 23, 2015, 8:39 am
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Our users have installed their own printers from a network print server.  I want to move to per-machine installs through GPO from a new server.  I have the install portion working.  Now I am looking for a way to automate removal of the per-user printer connections to my old print server before I decommission the server.   I looked at printui.dll, but that only seems to work for per-machine printer connections.   Any suggestions on how to automate removal of the existing per-user connections ?

Thanks

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Druckjobnamen und/oder Nutzer verbergen in Warteschlange | Hide prinjobname and / or username in Q

February 23, 2015, 4:36 am
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Hallo,

ich habe das Problem, dass auf einem Server eine Freigabe eines Druckers ist. Nun wird diese Freigabe verteilt oder per Mausklick gezogen, wie auch immer. Der dann vom Benutzer ausgelöste Druckjob steht nun mit Namen und Besitzer für einige Zeit in der Warteschlange. Weitere Druckjobs (auch mal viele Seiten) kommen an und reihen sich ein. Nun kommt auch noch ein Job aus der Personalabteilung mit "Microsoft Word - Kuendigung Herr Mustermann" (als Beispiel). Das ist unter dem Sicherheitsaspect nicht gewünscht.

Daher die Frage, besteht irgendwie die Möglichkeit den Jobnamen oder den User oder beides unkenntlich zu machen.
Alternativ, es werden für die normalen Benutzer die Jobs der anderen Benutzer gar nicht angezeigt

oder

Der Benutzer eben diese Warteschlangenansicht gar nicht öffnen kann.

Hat jemand eine Idee? Ich suche schon Tage nach einer Lösung.

Vielen Dank

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Hello,

I have the problem with sharing a printer on a server. The Printershare is in a policy or by point and klick given to the client, whatever. If the user send a print job ths will be displayed with names and ownername for some time in the queue. More print jobs ( ometimes many pages) arrive and lined on. Now comes another job from Human Resources with "Microsoft Word - Kuendigung Mr. Doe " ( s an example) . This is not desirable from a safety aspect .

Therefore, the questio: is there some way to make the job name or the user or to do both unrecognizable.
Alternatively , is there a possibility that the user can't see the job from others

or

the user is not able to open the share queue to see the jobs.

Does anyone have an idea? I 've been looking for days for a solution.

Kind regards

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forcing network printer paper sizes to propagate to clients

April 18, 2013, 12:47 pm
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I have a Server 2008 R2 print server which all the client workstations print through to networked printers. We have a Canon iPF8300S color plotter using the Canon driver. The problem I'm encountering is that I can't get the custom paper sizes I've created to propagate to the workstations' instances of this printer. This is a problem I've encountered in the past with other printers, but I've usually been able to get it to update by un-sharing and re-sharing the printer. This time nothing I try works

I've found a registry entry on the print server that governs the paper sizes, and it includes all of the custom ones, but because these are network shared printers, there's no corresponding entry on the workstation at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers where it would go. I do not want to set up local printer instances for all the workstations, and I really don't want to have to manually create custom paper sizes on all of them. There has to be a way to force these settings to propagate, but I can't seem to find anything that works.

These printers are all publish through Group Policy Preferences, set to "Replace". Not sure if that makes a difference, but my understanding is that option would delete and recreate the printer instance at logon. That is probably happening but it's still not updating the paper size settings.

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Default printer keeps changing for domain clients

April 18, 2013, 12:41 pm
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I manage a Windows domain with 3 DCs (2 2012 and 1 2008 R2) and a 2012 RDS server. Client PCs are all running Windows 8 Pro.

The problem is that the user's default printer on their PC keeps resetting itself. This happens not only at login but while they are logged in and working. For one user I've set the default printer to a Dell in her office in Devices and Printers and checked a few hours later and it was back to another printer it had been at before I changed it to the Dell. But she can go to print a document and change the printer to the Dell and it will print out on the Dell.

For another user, he changes the printer to the Dell when he goes to print out the document and it won't stick, it immediately changes itself back to a printer in another office.

Network printers are deployed via Group Preference. None of those printers are set as the default. No users have admin rights on their PC.

Anyone have an idea what is going on here?

Jonathan

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Print processor changed

February 26, 2015, 5:50 am
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Hello,

How to determine/trace when a print processor has been changed from winprint to HP processor?

Any log?

Thanks,

Dom

System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager

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Ports not shown in Win 2012 R2 Print Management Console

February 27, 2015, 1:57 am
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Hi,

I have two servers with Win 2012 R2 and Print Management MMC plugin installed. I can see Drivers, Forms and Printers of remote Print Servers, but no Ports. I have another two Win 2012 R2 Servers in the same subnet and the same domain, where I can see the ports.

The only difference between these machines is that the one where the ports are not displayed are Citrix XenApp with some applications installed.

I have a second Win2012R2 Citrix environment with the same behavior. Seems to be an issue with RDS or Citrix.

Does anybody have the same issue and know how to fix this?

br, Patrick


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Windows 7: Windows cannot connect to the printer 0x0000007e

September 2, 2009, 1:01 am
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I wonder if there is some way of debugging why the driver fails. The drivers are shared from a Windows 2003 R2 server, and our clients are Windows 7 Enterprise x86.

The full URL of the driver is http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=431039&prodNameId=431042&swEnvOID=2093&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pl-28280-4
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Network printer keeps randomly losing Duplex print setting

October 18, 2013, 6:25 am
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I recently installed a new print server that is running on Windows Server 2012.  I have it hosting 3 LaserJet 2015dn printers.  I have the Installable Duplex Printing option set to "Installed".  However, the printers will periodically lose this setting and it reverts back to "Not Installed."  It doesn't happen to them all at once.  Sometimes it's just one or two of them.  I then have to go back and change the option back to "Installed."  I can't figure out what could be causing this.

I use to have another Windows server 2012 machine set up as the print server and I never had this issue before.

Nate

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Canon iRA 7260 PCL5c print to mailbox

March 1, 2015, 3:10 pm
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     Hi all, hopping someone may know a quick fix to this problem.

     We just purchased a brand new Canon iRA7260, I had it setup on 2008 R2 print server with latest PCL5c drivers downloaded from Canon's website as it was recommended by canon tech. All our laptops and desktops are running Windows 7 64-bit and after creating a GPO everyone got connected to the printer no problem.

     Everything is working great except for this problem that happens to random users at random times. I had printing setup for privacy reasons to "Store" option, so when user hits "Print" button on a workstation a document is stored in user's Mailbox (folder) first which is located on printer's HDD. to print a document user need to walk up to the printer, punch in a pin and then hit print doc button again on the printer itself. For some reason occasionally documents do not show up in the mailbox, there is no errors of any kind on workstations and all I see in the print job logs on the print server is that document been spooled, printed and deleted. The strange thing is that the size of the document that disappears is always shown as 0 bytes in size and 1 page long. And the whole process of spooling printing and deleting happens within 1 second according to logs. There is no errors or warnings in the log except for informational events.

      Also the printer has a static IP, same subnet as the print server and PDC, printer's port has been setup to RAW and to spool documents, isolation setup to default. Thanks!





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Brother HL-2270DW and Win 2008 R2 Print server

July 7, 2014, 2:11 pm
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Greetings all. I have an interesting issue that occasionally affects 2-3 HL-2270DW Brother printers connected via RJ45 cables and shared on 2008 R2 Print Server. Occasionally they stop printing from workstations and to get them back and running again all I need is just to print a test page from the print server itself. However when I set driver to print directly to the printer instead of spooling the docs, the issue disappears. Any ideas what might be the problem?
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Print driver corruption

March 2, 2015, 6:07 am
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Hi,

We have a Windows 2008 R2 print server and Windows 7 (x86 and 64) clients connecting to it. Randomly the print drivers on the client get corrupted. It is mostly for Xerox machines (I think because they are the bigger printers, used by a lot more people), but it does happen on other printers as well. We applied the 3001232 fix with out any luck. I have read on other threads that disabling CSR might work, but it will tax our server too much and we want to try other things before doing this. Is there something else that worked for any of you? And if nothing else worked, did disabling CSR give 100% result? at least close to 95% positive result in ending the driver corruption?

Thank you and have a great day,
Sravani

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HP UPD 5.3 - some clients print garbage

July 28, 2011, 12:50 pm
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Server: Windows 2008 R2 SP1.
Clients: XP SP3.

Yesterday I upgraded from HP UPD PS 5.2.6.9321 to 5.3.1.10527.  This morning I find out that tons of users are now printing "garbage".  This garbage is actually raw PostScript code from all types of applications.  The kicker to this problem is that it appears to be PC and/or user based.  For example, WorkstationA prints out garbage but WorkstationB prints just fine -- they both are using the same queue on the print server.  Deleting all HP printers from the client and re-installing from the print server does not fix it.  If I change the print driver on the print server for the problem queue from HP Universal Printing PS (v5.3) to HP Universal Printing PS (v5.2), then the XP clients can print just fine again.

I've contacted HP and found out that other clients are reporting this problem too.  Awesome.

While I wait for HP to investigate/resolve the problem, what would cause some XP clients to print raw postscript while others work fine?

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Disable IPP Question

March 3, 2015, 6:14 am
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We have our printers accessible from http://servername/printers, which installs the printer with an http port. We don't want this and would rather install our printers with its IP.   I know that if IE security settings are set to anything above Medium-Low, the printer will install with an http port, and, in our case, "Custom" will also install an http port.  It isn't feasible to change the Security settings in IE, and I'm under the impression IPP can be disabled/removed from the server.  My question is if Internet Printing is removed from the server, will we still be able to use a web browser to connect to printers? And I assume that if this is the case, the printer will install with the IP address of the printer as its port, correct?   I'm basically wondering if we can use a web browser to continue to connect to printers, except instead of connecting the printer via http, we'd rather connect with it's IP address - we do not have a need for Internet printing but would like to continue to use Internet Explorer to access and connect to company printers, if possible.

 Thanks for any info.  

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SNMP Device Index changes to "0"

March 3, 2015, 8:37 am
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Maybe this isn't a big deal but I need an explanation for my Supervisor.

The Port is set up for SNMP enabled with the standard community "public".  Occasionally the SNMP Device Index changes from 1 to 0 taking the printer off-line. 

No rhyme or reason as to printer type or driver model.  I should mention that this behavior can happen on printers where the SMNP Status is disabled also.  The instances happened on Server 2008 and now on Server 2012 SP2.

Changing the index back to 1 solves the issue.  Strange to me as it doesn't seem like a fix rather a work-around.

I know I can avoid the issue by turning of SNMP. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

John

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Server 2012 R2 PDF Printing issues

June 25, 2014, 3:55 pm
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Hi all

I'm cross posting here as it seems this hasn't been discussed on Technet yet.

There seems to be a fundamental issue printing PDFs on 2012 R2 RDS.

Adobe Reader, Sumatra PDF, different printers & drivers all haven't fixed this issue.

At least one person has raised a ticket with Microsoft for this issue and they're apparently aware of it.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1344069

Can anyone help?

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Connecting to a printer on server

March 4, 2015, 12:14 pm
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I've setup a Windows Server 2012 Essentials machine as a file and print server. A printer is installed, ok, on the server and machines have been set up to connect to the printer Ok.

However I have just tried to connect my surface to the printer - Bizarrely though instead of linking to the server connection to the printer, it has connected to one of the other machines on the network that already are connected to the printer. So the connection in devices and printers doesn't show \\server\printer it shows \\computer\printer?

Hope this makes sense and someone can explain how to correct this please?

Thanks

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