Hi,

To ensure End to end encryption of print Jobs, i want to use IPP over SSL. I have a centralized Print Server WIN2008 R2 and WIN 7 Clients. I have installed/enabled the Internet Printing Client on both, IIS and Print Server Role at the Server and have enabled Windows Internet Printing within the Print Server Role.

To give it a try, i started with IPP Printing without SSL. Printer hardware is IPP enabled. I could create a Printer with Internet Port at the Client to Print to the Printer directly. Same works for the 2008 Server (Printing directly from the Server to the Hardware Printer).

My Problem is, that i cant connect from the client to the Printer Object at the Server. I even can't share the IPP Printer Object on the server. It refused the action with the Message "Sharing is not supported for this type of Printer"

Is there a way to print (first just with IPP) in the manner i plan to do?

Is there a instruction Manual how to configure the print environment to met my security considerations?

Thanks and regards,

Axel

We are using 2012r2 RDS session hosts, with Group policy mapped printers.. and some people have getting errors when trying to print a test page sporadically.  It seems like all of the printers are brand specific occurring to our Canon Printers. We are using the Universal UFR2 drivers.   We are using a 2012 print server and a 2008 r2 print server, with client side print rendering shut off on both the terminal server via group policy,  and on every printer on the print server.  Removing the printer, and then re-adding it on the session hosts normally allow the user to print.

These are the errors i am seeing on the session hosts when someone is trying to print from the 2008 r2 print server to the 2012 r2 session hosts.  We have also had this issue on our old 2008 r2 terminal servers.  

Opening CSR printer \\print.domain.local\Canon Back failed, error code 0x80070005. See the event user data for context information.

Opening CSR printer \\print.domain.local\Canon Back failed, error code 0x8004BABA. See the event user data for context information.

Thanks,

James

Hello, I`m new here, hope to get some help soon :)

So, the client of mine, is having a trouble with his printer. He uses windows 10, and when connects to windows server 2003, sometimes he can print anything, but sometimes printer just dissapears... It been ok with same printer ant windows xp.

We are having an issue with a Kyocera driver.  We recently started getting new models of some of these Kyocera copiers, and with it a newer version of the same driver.  The new copiers are slightly different.  The driver version went from 5.x to 6.x  We soon discovered that the two don't work well together on the same print server.  Some departments all of the sudden can't print.  The error they get is "can't connect to printer".  As if there is no driver.

On the print server I updated the driver for our printer here in the IT department.  I didn't just update it from the existing printer (Properties>Advanced Tab>New Driver), I instead deleted the printer, recreated it, and used the new driver when I recreated it.  That worked here in the IT dept.  It does not work in other departments.  A day later they still have the old driver.  Rebooting does nothing.  I got the new driver within 3 minutes of updating it on the server.

Seems like a rights issue.  I give them "manage printer" rights.  Still don't download the new driver.  But... they can all of the sudden print - with the old driver!  Makes no sense.

Under normal circumstances, shouldn't they get the new driver whenever I update it on the server?

I recently had a request to setup a print queue for testing. Not wanting to waste paper, I wanted to have it print to file.  So I looked online, and I found you can setup a generic/text only printer that will print to a file by setting the print point to a directory path and file name.  The one problem with that is each new print job overwrites the last one. 

I found some apps that you can buy to do this, but nothing in the scripting realm, and definitely nothing for free.

So I created a powershell script that monitors the folder, and when a new file arrives, it renames it to the date/time down to the second.  Being that granular with the time insures that the file names are never duplicated.  The process runs in an endless loop, and won't stop until the server shuts down.

Set this up as a scheduled task to run on system start-up.

========================================================

$folder = "Print Load Test"
$end = "False"
DO
{
 Get-EventSubscriber | Unregister-Event
 Get-Event | Remove-Event
$query = @"
 Select * from __InstanceCreationEvent within 1  
 where targetInstance isa 'Cim_DirectoryContainsFile'  
 and targetInstance.GroupComponent = 'Win32_Directory.Name="d:\\\\$Folder"'
"@
Register-WmiEvent -Query $query -SourceIdentifier "MonitorFiles"
$fileEvent = Wait-Event -SourceIdentifier "MonitorFiles"
#$fileEvent.SourceEventArgs.NewEvent.TargetInstance.PartComponent
$date=(get-date -Format d) -replace("/")
$time=(get-date -Format T) -replace(":")
$datetime = ("$date $time") -replace(" ", "_")
Rename-Item "d:\$folder\new.txt" "Print_$datetime.dat"
} Until ($end -eq "True")
 
=============================================================

I hope this helps someone.

Clay Perrine

We are migrating our printers to a new Server 2012 R2 box.

Our current setup is using a Server 2008 R2 server.  The server name follows our standard naming convention which we did not want our users to see.  Therefore a CNAME entry was added to DNS called POPRINT pointing at the 2008 R2 server.

We have installed our new 2012 R2 server again using our server naming conventions.  Therefore I have created a new CNAME record in DNS of HOPRINT and pointed it to our new server.

In Print management from my Windows 7 laptop I can add POPRINT, the old server, and see all the printers, forms, drivers and ports.

When I try to add the new HOPRINT I see nothing. If I right click and do properties I get - "Server properties cannot be viewed. Double check the printer name and make sure that the printer is connected to the network."

So I assumed there was a problem with the server.  To test this I added the actual server name to the Print Management console and all works fine.  I can see everything.

I can ping the server by name and the CNAME entry and they both return the correct IP address so DNS is working.

I have even tried doing this from the new server itself and that cannot see the new CNAME entry either.

Anyone any thoughts why this does not work the same way as the old installation?

Rob.

Hi,

I have a very strange and difficult problem with our two Central Print Servers. If a client running Windows 7 SP1 (x86 or x64) try to print an internet page from Internet Explorer 10 (Version 10.0.9200.17492 / Update Versions 10.0.31) on our Windows Server 2012 R2 and he is doing this on a Samsung CLP-680 with the latest driver version (or all the versions before) it leads randomly to a Print Spooler Service Crash... An exception is triggered by the Samsung Driver DLL and the application EventId is the following :

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x54503ab3
Faulting module name: ssd3clf.dll, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x54ec1d5c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000001e67
Faulting process id: 0x11dc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0ec5954b75f54
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\ssd3clf.dll
Report Id: 2bcfad53-5851-11e5-80d5-0050568e29fd
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

This problem doesn't occur with another application (We tried Outlook, and all MS Office application without any issue)

Also, this problem doesn't occur on any of our Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

We tried direct printing from the client workstation to the printer with the same driver package and no issue at all

It is only the combination of 3 elements that gives problem:

• Internet Explorer 10
• Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1
• Samsung driver CLP 680 Series (Latest version and previous versions)

If you replace one of the 3 elements listed above everything works fine ! Any other model of printer work well even other Samsung models... (All Servers, workstations are fully patched and this is the latest driver version)

Anyone has an idea about this problem ?

Thanks

Hi all,

I have used the deploy feature through GPO on several printers in our staff room and those appear under staff accounts within a selected OU, however I was wondering if it is possible to deploy another printer which is dedicated for a certain section of our school to selected users in this OU rather than everyone.

I have created a security group for the selected staff i want to use the printer and added it to the printer's security settings in print management, however im having no luck with the printer i want to be deployed to appear. I have also linked the GPO to the correct OU, yet it only seems to appear for administrators or anyone that is a domain admin.

Any help would be much appreciated. Should mention that most of our client machines are Windows 8.1 & 7 and Server infrastructure is Windows Server 2012 R2 Data center

Regards,

Hasan

Hello,

we have a Windows 2008R2 Failover Cluster with two nodes for printing services. We tested moving the services between the nodes after the installation with a few installed drivers and printers. It worked perfectly.

After installing all the necessary drivers and creating all printers on the cluster I turned on driver isolation in shared mode for all drivers.

I had to move the cluster resources to apply patches today. Now I've got a problem:

The spool service won't start after moving the services. Moving them again and restarting the nodes doesn't help. The print spoolers on on the single nodes work, but the cluster resource "spooler" doesn't.

I got the following entry in the application log of the nodes:

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7601.17777, time stamp: 0x4f35fc1d
Faulting module name: clusapi.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7c571
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000000223db
Faulting process id: 0x428
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdb755bd110b7c
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\clusapi.dll
Report Id: 067e9c11-2f10-11e2-baca-0019bbd37cde

Thank you in advance!

I have a Server 2012 R2 with shared printers. (Let's call it Server1)
i have installed them on a RDS server (Let's call it RDS1) and on a second RDS server (Let's call it RDS2)

But for some reason printing doesn't work well. So i decided to remove the installed shared printers on RDS1 and RDS2, unshare the printers on Server1, remove the printers on Server1, and install the printers locally on RDS1 and RDS2.

Now the problem is, that only on RDS1, there are a lot of printers listed named printer1 on Server1, Printer2 on server1, etc.. When I remove them, they just return after a few minutes. No GPO's are used to install printers. The printers even don't exist anymore on Server1, but the keep getting automatically added. i don't have this problem on RDS2. No printers are added there.

So My question is: where are there 'ghostprinters' coming from? Why do they keep getting automatically installed, even when the shared printers don't exist anymore?
And to top it off, each ghostprinters is added about 7 or 8 times, and they don't work. Printer properties are not available.

Hi,

I am struggling to get internet printing working on Windows Server 2008 R2.  I have had this working fine on 2003 in the past with no issues.  The objective is to give some contractors working in our office but on a public internet link access to print on our office printers via the internet.

I can view the printer properties via the website @https://publicsite.company.com/printers but when I click Connect I am prompted whether I want to add a printer connection tohttps://publicsite.company.com/printers/printername/.printer?

Clicking yes to this gives the error:

Printer Installation Failed. The printer name is invalid.

On the LAN I can add the printer via UNC path,\\servername\printer and I can add it via the internal website athttp://publicsite.companyname.com/printers, though when I connect via the website it gives the path as\\publicsite.companyname.com\printername. I can’t connect internally to the printer as http://publicsite.companyname.com/printers/printername or viahttp://servername.companyname.com/printers/printername.

·         On the machine accessing via the internet I have tested with the site as local intranet and with the site added as a trusted site with medium / low security and the password is saved

·         The webserver has Internet Printing added under the Print Management role and Internet Printing Client feature installed.

·         The web server has had the hotfix recommended here installed:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982643/en-us

·         The registry key from this article has been added to allow printing via cnamehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/979602

·         Internet Printing Client is installed on all Windows 7 clients I am testing from.

This was a breeze to get going under Windows Server 2003, have to wonder why it has changed so much.

Where can I go from here towards getting this going?

Cheers,

James

Hi,

Our setup:

Windows Server 2008 x64 terminal servers with Citrix XenApp 5.5

Windows Server 2008 R2 file/print servers

x64 printer drivers

Network printers are mapped with RES PowerFuse

Our problem:

When installing or updating products using msiexec the process uses hours to complete, with about 50% cpu usage on a dual cpu terminal server.

We used process explorer to monitor the msiexec process to find out what it was doing, and found that it was enumerating a huge amount of GUIDs in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Terminal Server\Install\RefHive.

After some digging on the internet we found that the GUIDs came from HKU\.Default\Software\PrintVendor\CSR|Printserver\{GUID}. With another vendors driver they are created directly under the "printvendor" key.

We found the same keys under HKU\S-1-5-18.

We then set up a testenvironment to find out why that huge amounts of GUID were created under the HKU\.Default... key, and it seems it is created each time a user logs on and connects a network printer.

On further investigation we found that RES PowerFuse disconnects the network printer at each log off, so there is a new network printer connection each time the user logs on and hence we get a new GUID each time. The disconnect feature is a good thing as we don't have to worry about removing mapped network printers when they are phased out.

But even if we disable the disconnect feature we'll have the same problem, but it's limited to the number of users logging on the terminal servers or Citrix servers for the first time. So if there are 1000 users with a couple of print mappings each the number of GUIDS will eventually be the number of users multiplied with the number of print mappings pr user on each server.

Since this is created under the HKU\.Default key, all users getting a new profile also get the GUIDS in their user registry that makes the ntuser.dat file grow.

We are able to reproduce this in a lab environment without Citrix or Res Powerfuse by deleting the print mapping and then connect the printer again. The printer drivers have also been tested in several different versions, with and without native print processor and with and without CSR enabled.

The workaround is to delete the offending keys in HKU\.Default, but this is a very cumbersome procedure and we don't know what effect it has on the users print setup.

So far we have seen the issue with some Sharp drivers, HP Universal Printer v5.0 drivers and Konica Minolta drivers.

On the Sharp driver an equal amount of GUIDs are created under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ICM\ProfileAssociations\Print, but it's only one key with some sub values (key: CSR|printserver,{GUID}).

It seems that this is vendor related, but I'm wondering if anyone else have seen this behavior and found some way to fix it or work around it?

I think it's strange that all the keys that are created does not get cleaned up when a printer connection is deleted...

Regards,

Martin Eilertsen

I am trying to install Network printer from active directory but it won't install. Error code that I recieve is 0x00000002 and nothing more. I have tried to restart the print spooler and restarted Computer many times. Other printers from ad can be added normally. The printer is also unavailable when I try to install it manyally By ip address.  What could be the cause for this?

Hi!

Is it possible to select more than one driver while adding printer drivers from windows update in Print Management Console?

Thanks.

OK so this morning I experienced a new problem that seems to have no explicable cause or source, as I have been using my machine the exact same way without any previous interruptions, so I have no understanding of what the issue may be. What is happening is, after I capture video, who's length I take note of so that I can quickly locate and edit it, I drag and drop the new file to VLC. The problem occurs at this point, when I try to play the video. The length inexplicably becomes 00:00:01 and the file size mysteriously shrinks to accommodate this new erroneous length. While searching for clues, answers or solutions, I stumbled upon an event log that read as follows:

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.10162.0, time stamp: 0x55920cea
Faulting module name: dlnashext.dll, version: 12.0.10162.0, time stamp: 0x55920669
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000027b1d
Faulting process id: 0x9c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0d52c69a22ed7
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\dlnashext.dll
Report Id: fbfcf636-73b1-49eb-8e54-a24a840d2956
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

The other parameters of the error seem to be relatively private, feel free  to ask for them if they can help to solve my problem. Like I said, this is not an abnormal operation and I have 80 free gb on the partition I'm using, so I really need to find out what is causing my captures to disappear? thank you for your attention to this problem!

Net Share [sharename] comes up with all good information, but where it says "users", It's just blank.

Am I missing something?

Hi,

Is it possible to have a user which is a member of the Account Operator group to be able to install printers on a particular Active Directory domain controller? If possible we would want to provide him access to install the printer on that particular server only.

Thanks and regards,

Johnross

Does Server 2012 offer an easy way to create a redundant print server? If so, can anyone point me to a walkthrough?

Hi, I have a Windows Server 2012 R2, in this Server I have some Services that every morning reads some text from a web Server and write These data into some text files and then send them to a Network connected Printer.

My problem is, the Printer will not print These until someone Login, the print Job will be listed in the Queue but it won't be printed unless someone logon on the Server.

I want to how can I Change this behavior?

Thanks