Hey, I know this has been an issue for alot of people and I have seen alot of questions about this. I have tried almost everything that people refere to, to fix this BUT the connect button still wont show up for me :/
Anyone got any clues as to what to do ?
I have a 2008 R2 server that has 340 print queues shared on a domain.
I am being asked to replace this server with a 2016 server, and looking for advice on doing this, what to avoid, any pitfalls, etc.
If I export using the Print Management tool, export printers to a file, will I be able to import them in 2016 without losing settings?
Hello there...
I've been searching multiple forums for a solution, but I can't find one. We have a few 2012 R2 Terminal Servers + a 2012 R2 Printserver and map all of our printers via GPP.
It often happens that printers are not mapped. The eventlog of the TS shows the foloowing entries:
Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x8007000a The environment is incorrect.
Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bc4 No printers were found.' This error was suppressed
What is absolutely incomprehensible to me is the fact that, when I send a gpupdate /force on the user-session, the printer gets mapped immediately. This is the same step that is done during the user's logon, isn't it?
I've set the GPO to wait for the network. (Administrative Templates -> System ->Logon“Always Wait for the Network at Computer Startup and Logon
I'm running out of ideas.. it isn't realated to a specific printer model.It happens to all vendors..
Any ideas? :( Thanks!
Hello and thanks for taking your time to look at this.
My problem is: So I recently made it possible to go into xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Printers and get the Connect button to show up.
Now it tells me when I click the connect button, that the Printer Name is invalid for some reason. I have been looking around for quite a while now but I cannot seem to find what I am looking for considering this problem :c
SO I am running IE 11 on a Windows server 2012 r2.
I hope someone can help me out with this! :)
Hello,
I have an application developed with Visual Studio 2015 that exposes web services and one of them takes care of print a label with a barcode through a Zebra printer.
This printer is connected in the local net and in my Windows 10 is installed properly. And I configured the size of the paper to be 10x10cm.
If I debug my code through VS2015 and I call my web service, the label is printed with the size I configured.
Now, the problem comes when I publish my application to IIS and I try to call the web service. The label is printed but with smaller size (I think this size comes by default in the printer). After some time researching, my deduction is that printer settings are stored linked to my windows user, but IIS is using another printer settings and I don't know why.
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks,
Joan
I have a client who uses microsoft's "Print-2-Image" printer driver. The driver resets it resolution to 200x200 each time the driver is invoked. The client has attempted to set the default resolution to 600x600 but it resets each time the driver is invoked. I tried, as a regional administrator, to set the driver to 600x600, but it doesn't carry over to the user account. Yes it was originally installed by an administrator.
Any suggestions on how to default the driver resolution to 600x600 and have it stick across all users on that shared system?
Thanks, Chris
Hi,
i m using printbrm.exe to take backup but once i restore it will not restore the device setting where i a configuring the tray settings, others setting are fine like ip address name etc, please suggest
Backup Command
Printbrm.exe -B -S \\Servername -F path
Restore Command
Printbrm.exe -R -O Force -S \\Servername -F path
Original Setting
after restore
This is crazy. Printing this page in Powerpoint 2016 bluescreens a Windows 10 1809 computer. The bsod error is "stop code: system service exception, what failed: win32kfull.sys". Here's how it looks:
Hello,
first let me say that my english is not very will, but I will do my best.
I need to migrate our old 2008 R2 print server (around 130 printer) to a new 2016 server. Migrating printer / drivers was not a big deal. The wizzard was able to install all drivers and printers. Mapping and printing over the new server worked as expected.
After some testing I realized that mapping a printer tooks some time (somthing around one minute) when the printer isoffline. If I turned the printer on again it just tooks some seconds to map them. The problem occours with hp upd 6.6 and 5.7.
The problem only occours if print server is windows server 2016 and clients are windows 2016 or windows 10.
The printer driver are preinstalled on the clients.
server 2016 -> windows 10 = slow
server 2016 -> server 2016 = slow
server 2008 R2 -> server 2016 = fast
server 2008 R2 -> windows 7 = fast
server 2008 R2 -> server 2008 R2 = fast
Someone got an idea?
Thanks a lot.
Krinto
Stephen Reinhard
Hi,
I've got a new Server 2008 Standard server that I setup with printer shares that are listed in Active Directory. This server was setup to replace an old Server 2003 print server.
The only minor (but extremely annoying to the client, apparently) issue is that now, when users list printers in AD and install one, it maps to their machine as \\fully.qualified.domain.name\printer-name, instead of just \\servername\printer-name like it used to. This is making their printer drop-down menus hard to read in certain apps and the users are frustrated.
I've checked my DNS setup and also looked at the shares themselves and see nothing about specifying how the printers are shared one way or another. Any ideas?
Brian
We're using a legacy app on our Win2012 R2 and Win10 environment that cannot use printers with long names. When published Active Directory printers are added in Win10 it displays printers as "printer-name on fully.qualified.domain.name" instead of "printer-name on Server" which we prefer. (Ironically... when printers are pushed out via Group Policy the short names are used. Weird.)
I found an old Technet post that explained how changing the following registry key could enforce short name usage but it's not working... probably because Windows 10 doesn't support it?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
DWORD Value
ConnectPrintersWithShortNames
Value data 1.
Is there any way to acheive short printer names?
Thank you.
Hello,
On Windows Server 2016, I launched a fax server. My server have two Fax modems and two phone number. Each modem connected to a separate line.
Sometimes, server can't receive the faxes properly. For example, I send 10 faxes, but the server just receive 8 of them.
Any idea to solve it?
Thank you.
If we try to add a shared network printer on Windows 10 LTSB 2016 clients using the classic control panel, the list shows many strange unwanted additional printer entries. For example their names containing the manufacturer, printer model and the share name separated by colons. In older windows versions the list only shows the share names of the published printers. Whats going on there in Windows 10 and how can we avoid this?
Windows 10: The printers in the first row are the correct share names of the printers, the other entries are unwanted duplicates of the shared printers listed with another name. By the way, it's sad that the addresses of the printers aren't listed there anymore in Windows 10.
In Windows Server 2012 R2 and also Windows 8.1 and 7 the list contains only the expected shared printers with their share name and no unwanted duplicates:
Hi everyone.
I work on a RESTful service in WCF (C#) to manage Print Queues remotely on multiple print servers (Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016). I use WMI classes (Win32_Printer, Win32_PrinterConfiguration, Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort...etc) and System.Management/System.Printing namespaces to achieve that. All works flawlessly, I can create my shared/published print queues in AD, with corresponding port and driver as well, througha website dedicated for that.
But, some of these servers host thousands of printer queues, 7000+ for the biggest.
The code I'm using right now is :
public List<Queue> GetQueuesByServer(SearchModel model)
{
var queues = new List<Queue>();
var query = new ObjectQuery($"SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer WHERE {model.Attribute} like '%{model.Value}%'");
using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(managementScope, query))
{
var queuesCollection = searcher.Get();
foreach (ManagementObject m in queuesCollection)
{
var queue = new Queue();
if (m["Location"] != null)
{
queue.comment = m["Comment"]?.ToString();
queue.driverName = m["DriverName"]?.ToString();
queue.isDirect = (bool)m["Direct"];
queue.isPublished = (bool)m["Published"];
queue.isQueued = (bool)m["Queued"];
queue.isShared = (bool)m["Shared"];
queue.keepPrintedJobs = (bool)m["keepPrintedJobs"];
queue.isRawOnlyEnabled = (bool)m["RawOnly"];
queue.isBidiEnabled = (bool)m["EnableBIDI"];
queue.scheduleCompletedJobsFirst = (bool)m["DoCompleteFirst"];
queue.name = m["Name"]?.ToString();
queue.isBODPEnabled = GetBODPState(queue.name);
queue.portName = m["PortName"]?.ToString();
queue.portType = m["PrintJobDataType"]?.ToString();
queue.printProcessor = m["PrintProcessor"]?.ToString();
queue.location = m["Location"]?.ToString();
queue.shareName = m["ShareName"]?.ToString();
queue.server = model.Server;
queues.Add(queue);
}
}
return queues;
}
}Same logic to get printer ports.
This operation can take more than 900 seconds with the biggest centralized print server. With a "normal" printserver (~10/20 queues), it's instant. I tested with both my REST client and our dedicated website.
URL: https://print.api/QueueService.svc/GetQueuesByServer
{"Server":"SRV01","Attribute":"Location","Value":"/FRANCE/PARIS/SITE_XX/BUILDING_XX..."
}In this example, I want to retrieve all print queues only for a specific site in Paris. We never want to get all print queues hosted on a specific centralized print server, the location attribute is used as filter, based on site / building / floor.
I am hopping someone has a faster way to do that. Is there an obvious optimization ?
Best regards.
Hi,
First time posting here, but I thought hey maybe someone can help with solving this issue.
A bit about the environment, users connect to a RDS farm via thin clients from which they work. their workflow is a mixture of SAP and office products.
The issue we are facing is that we get reports from users is that they experience that applications such as Excel, SAP, IE and so on that hangs or work very slow. after troubleshooting a few of these users we found out that the way to fix it was to restart the print spooler service on the server they were on. we also saw that when this happens in the process there tend to be a lot of printerisolationhost.exe
users get printers mapped through a GPO from a Print server.
all servers are Windows server 2012 R2
Cheers!
Hi All,
I have just upgrade one of our Print Servers due to Server Sunset. All went ok on the server side and I took advice on this Tech Forum to migrate the printers using the Wizard tool. All good and set-up without any issues.
The question I have is does anyone know how best to do the client side. We are having to link the clients to printers manually. Is there a tool that can be used to complete this task or will we have to do it manually for all the users?
Regards.
We have Server 2012 setup as a print server with over 140 printers on it, it has been working fine for awhile now. There was a job stuck in the print queue that we tried to delete but it wouldn't go away. I restarted the print spooler and it did clear the job out, but now when you connect to the server via UNC you only see 18 printers instead of over 140.
I tried to unshared the printer and then re-share it but I get a Printer Properties popup box that says, Printer settings could not be saved. Access is denied. I thought this might be a rights issue, but I logged on as a domain admin and verified that I do have rights under the Security tab. Now that I have unshared this printer I can't get it to re-share.
I looked under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares and it lists the 18 printers that I can see when I UNC to the server, but not all the rest.
If you look in event viewer under Print service you see this:
The print spooler failed to share printer MC-ICE-HP-CLJ4525 with shared resource name MC-ICE-HP-CLJ4525. Error 5. The printer cannot be used by others on the network.
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I have a windows 2008 r2 standard server that is running as a citrix session server and C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\TOSHIBA\eSTUDIOX\UNIDRV\Cache\* is taking up 10GB on the 100GB drive. From what I have been able to figure out so far is that this is for the Toshiba printer driver.
It seems crazy to me that it would take up this much space. There are folders within the Cache that are from 3 months back. Are these safe to delete? Is there a reason why it is taking up so much space and not clearing up?
Any help would be appreciated,
-Cassese Polzin