PrintSpooler hangs
Greetings!I'm having a hard time troubleshooting our Print Spooler running on Server 2008 Standard SP2 x86 and was hoping someone might have some answers.Symptoms:Every day / every other day the...
View ArticleUsers periodically cannot print unless printer is activated from the Windows...
We are running a print server on Windows Server 2008 R2 to manage our printers. At some point during the day, some, but not all, persons cannot send print jobs to any of the various printers. If I...
View Articleprintservice event id 322
Hi Guys,Our clients is using Citrix to access published application and print server (clustered), both servers are running WIndows EE 2008 R2 All printers are published through GPO. Users are...
View ArticlePrint redirecting
We have a Server running 2012 and use it as a print server for our copy machines. Does anyone know if it's possible to do the following?If a user printers to copier 1 and the job is less than 50 pages...
View ArticleUnsigned print driver installation on Windows 2012 Server
What is the easiest way to install unsigned Xerox print drivers on a Windows 2012 Print Server? I'm getting this error, which I think must be related to the drivers being unsigned: "Driver...
View ArticlePrinters added and shared without access to printer properties - Server 2012
On a Server 2012 domain controller, without the Print Management role installed, I have added a network printer through ‘Control Panel’ > ’Devices and Printers’, shared it through group policy, and...
View ArticleV3 Printer driver on Windows Server 2012
Hello there.....I have installed Print services on Windows Server 2012. I have read several forum and found that it is a best practice to install V3 drivers if workstations run on Windows 7.Our all of...
View Article8 Months and counting...
Hello all,We have 2 different domains with their own printer servers. All are running Server2008R2x64 and here is what we are seeing:All the machines have the same base image being Win7x64 Enterprise....
View ArticleShared Print Driver (Fuji Xerox)
Hi guys,I deployed 7units of Fuji Xerox Multi Function Printer.Current OS 2008 R2. basically i share out 7 drivers 5 unit is running same driver. Users able to map to 4 unit. 1 of the shared printer...
View ArticleShared Printer Rights
Is it possible to share a printer and give the user rights to change the driver in use but not modify other printer settings?We have driver compatibility issues causing problems with different PC's on...
View ArticleCannot update printer driver on client computers
Hi all,we are migrating users and computers from one domain (DomainA) to another one (DomainB). All was working fine: bidirectional trusts is created, all users and computer are migrated but the...
View ArticleMoving printers to consolidate servers without interrupting users [Windows 2003]
Greetings! How do I go about moving network printers served from ServerA to ServerB, decommission/shutdown ServerA, and be completely transparent to users without causing them the need to remap...
View ArticleNetwork printer is displayed incorrectly as offline.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2713128We are experiencing exactly what the above article describes. However, we are having the issue only on Windows 8.1 When a user works from home, on their laptops,...
View ArticleDeploy printer with single sided defaults
Hi,We are trying to deploy Xerox WorkCentre printers. Deploying is no problem but it always deploys the Xerox Print drive to double sided rather than single sided and then we have to save it.How can I...
View ArticlePrinters not showing up in Add Printers / Network module - No printers found
Hello All,I have tried a few different recommended fixes to no avail. When simply going to Devices and Printers, Add Printer, then Network.... no printers are found, until you click the The Printer...
View ArticleProgrammatically Setting *Global* Printing Permissions on Windows 7 Client
By default, Windows 7 allows a user to create a local printer in the Printers and Devices dialog (via Add Printer -> Add A Local Printer). We would like to prevent unprivileged users from doing...
View ArticleFault tolerance for network printing
What options are available to provide fault tolerance for network printing? Currently, all our shared printers are on ServerA. Is it possible to have similar shared printers on ServerB and have the...
View ArticleShared Printers getting Offline
The Printer Drivers are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and shared among domain users. The Status of the Printers becomes Offline/Printer not found on the Server. When the printer spooler is...
View ArticleMigrating from Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2
I used Printbrm to export my printers from Server 2003 to a file and I want to import them to my 2012 R2 server. However, I want to keep the other print server operational until I implement my script...
View Articlefax server & security
I have a problem , some accounts added in Microsoft fax service manager can see and delete files, I don't want to do this job, I want only they see the objects,i config security setting for this but I...
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