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Migrating Printers from 2008 r2 server to 2012 r2

October 27, 2015, 7:27 am
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Hello,

I'm trying to make as small of a user impact as possible for a print server migration to servers with different names.

I've successfully exported printers from a 2008 r2 server and imported them to a 2012 r2 server.  I then removed the 2008 r2 machine from the domain.   After the DNS record removed, I made a CNAME for the 2008 r2 machine to point to the 2012 r2 server.

When I try to print using a printer installed from the 2008 r2 name, I get print spooler errors.  Am I missing an SPN command to make this change work?  Or should I be taking a different approach?

Thank you

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Best way to deploy printers

October 28, 2015, 7:58 am
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Hi all,

I've been deploying printers on my 2012R2 server for a long time using the 'Deploy with GPO (per machine)'. The fact is that even it works well, people just hates having to reset computer to have new printer deployed. Also, as far as I know, the 'Deploy with GPO' doesn't keep printer settings updated, so if I have to modify a printer setting (such as double side)', I have to remove from GPO and deploy again.

Long ago, I tested GPP, but had to go back as I configured printers as 'Replace' and 'Mark as default if no other local printer is default', and as far as I remember, printer control panel went crazy at every gp update, adding and removing printers and marking them as default, no matter which one user had previously selected.

Thing is, I want to give GPP a second try as I *think* it should be the correct way to deploy printers in modern environments (server 2012r2 and windows 7+ clients) so, given this scenario, how would you configure a GPP to properly work?

  • Computers are grouped using OU depending on the primary group they belong to.
  • All Users are grouped using security groups (they share the same OU), an user may be in more than one security group and rarely may move from one security group to another one.
  • Every user uses his/her own computer, not shared computers
  • If an user is assigned a new department, his security groups will be modified accordingly, and he *may* reuse his computer, so computer would me moved to the new OU too.

My ideas so far:

  1. Deploy using GPP, using one global GPO for all computers, targeting every printer to a user security group, using 'Replace'. This would cause that every time GPO is applied user printers will be removed and created again, and this may be slow and user notice it (lag computer or temporarily no printers at all).
  2. Deploy using GPP, using a GPO for every OU. Would target by user group, first action would be 'delete all shared printers' with 'Apply once and not reapply' and then list all printers for that primary group, maybe fine tuning using user security group targeting. Printers would be deployed using 'Update'. The need to 'Delete all shared printers' step once is to remove all garbage an user or computer may take with him if moved around the A.D. (GPP items aren't removed when the hosting GPO is out of scope, and if I mark 'Remove this item when it is no longer applied', it changes from Update to Replace == idea 1).

None of the ideas fully satisfies me, and even not being tested, i've the feeling something is missing, that it can't/shouldn't be that hard, and hopefully some of you may enlight me how you manage these daily problems  in your printing environment.

Thanks in advance!

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Is there a limitation on amount of Fax Modems/Channels in windows 2012 R2 Standard edition?

June 29, 2015, 1:21 pm
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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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Compatable Printers to use with Windows Server 2008 SP2 64 Bit

October 28, 2015, 4:36 pm
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What are some compatible printers to use with Windows Server 2008 SP2 64 Bit running on a Dell Power Edge T110 Server?
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Windows server 2012 - Printers reappear after delete

October 28, 2015, 12:46 am
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Good morning everyone,

I have a problem:

I have a server with O.S. in title, after deleting printer I stop and start spool service, they reappear.

I delete printers from control panel with the option "remove device".

Is there any temp file that I can delete for complete remove printers?

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Unable to install shared printers located at 2008 PrintServer using \\NetbiosName

October 28, 2015, 5:19 am
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Hi

I have installed a bunch of printers and shared them on our Windows server 2008 STD (NOT R2).  Problem is our Windows 7 machines cannot install them by going to \\PrintServerNetBIOS name.  They are listed however you cannot open or connect to printers to install them

Error: Windows cannot connect to printer.  Operation failed with error 0x00000002


The only fix is to restart the windows 7 machines.  Sometimes it works or it doesn't.  I can access the regular network shares on that server just fine.  Also if I use \\192.168.x.x it works too but not netbios or fqdn.

Would you please help?



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Print jobs dissapear and never print

October 29, 2015, 1:23 pm
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Network environment windows 7 peer network Or 2008 R2 Server

Network IP printer - does not matter the vendor - HP, Brother, Lexmark - all N type printers and current/New

25 print jobs of single/2 page printouts are sent to the printer, then another 25 then another then another - maybe up to 100.

Random print jobs do not physically print.  There is nothing data related.  repeat the process and another random set will not print.  Never the same print jobs, never the same count of failures - no errors.

ANY IDEAS?

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Not considering default printer

October 29, 2015, 1:00 am
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Hi,

I am facing one problem regarding printer. My computer is connected to network printer. I have set that printer as default printer. When I click on print option it shows XPS window to save as xps document. It is not cosidering default printer.

Why this happens?? Can anybody explain me??

I have domain network using server 2003 and clients are windows xp

Please Help!!

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Print

October 30, 2015, 3:54 am
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Hello,

Who will explain to me:

1. If I print document "test.txt" in Notepad.exe, I see in queue spooler the file name "test.txt"

but

2. If I print document use command "print.exe /D:\\127.0.0.1\print_name c:\test.txt" I see in queue spooler "document load locally"

How as using the command"print.exe" receive in queue spooler file name.It is very important to me.

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Difficulty Adding Printers to Client Machines

October 29, 2015, 7:04 am
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Hello —

We installed our print server on a Windows 2012 R2 Server in December of last year.  Ever since then, we’ve been experiencing major difficulty with adding printers on our client machines, which are all running Windows 8.1.

We’ve tried:
A virtual basic script
Group Policy Policy
Group Policy Preferences
A batch file that deletes any existing printers on each user login before adding the printers again

And we are still experiencing difficulty.  

When using the VBS, the printers showed up half of the time or less.  We thought it was the outdated method, so we switched over to using Group Policy.

When using Group Policy, the printers showed up inconsistently — showing up for some users but not others, sometimes disappearing after a restart, sometimes not.  I recreated the GPO and the OU from scratch multiple times.  Running a gpupdate /force usually forced the printers to add, but never for very long.  I confirmed that the GPO was actually being applied with no errors by running a gpreport.  Then I switched over to using a .bat file that ran on login.

This is the .bat file:

net use \\FQDN /user:username password /persistent:yes
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n\\FQDN\library /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n\\FQDN\library-color /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\FQDN\library
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n\\FQDN\library
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\FQDN\library-color

This worked in one of our spaces.  In the library, where the computers experience extremely high user turnover with constant login and logouts, the printers show up about half of the time.  Sometimes restarting and logging back in the user works, other times it does not.

I have two questions.  

One, has anyone else experienced issues with using a bat file to add printers on computers that experience a high number of login and logouts in quick succession?  Do you have any suggestions for making this work?

Two, has anyone else experienced major issues like the other ones I described above with remotely connecting to printers on a 2012 R2 server from 8.1 clients?

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"Access denied" error 0x5 when accessing shared printer

October 30, 2015, 7:54 am
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Hello,

We have a Win2012R2 print server setup with 150 shared printers.  It is a domain member.  Most of our printing population is students whose laptops are not members of our domain.  Those clients with Win8 or newer seem to intermittently receive"Access Denied" when accessing their installed queues.  Sometimes a reboot or sometimes simply restarting the print spooler remedies the issue.  Other times it does not.  I have the guest account enabled on this server which (I assume) is what allows them to submit jobs. If I setup the client to reference the server using IP address, it seems to consistently work.  If I use the FQDN is when it intermittently fails.  I've exhausted my Internet searching.  Has anyone seen this intermittent behavior?

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Queries on Print Queue.

November 4, 2015, 4:37 am
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How to know whether the Printer\Print Queue installed locally on the system or connected from Print server.

After upgrade the Print Driver in Print Server for a particular Queue Name, will the clients receives upgrade Drivers or use the existing Print queue Drivers to process the prints.

how to list the Print queues installed from client systems, is there any script to help.

Ravi Ch

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SNMP index changing to 0 with Server 2012 R2 Printing

November 5, 2015, 10:04 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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Managing Printer Drivers for VDI Environment

November 6, 2015, 2:08 pm
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Hi,

 What is the best way of managing printer drivers (60+ drivers) for VDI environment? Currently, I have personal and pooled VMs and set up Printer Server and use GPO to deploy printers. Every time user logged into Pooled VMs, all the drivers start to install and took forever since there are 60+ drivers. GPO Loopback is a way to go?

 Also what are the steps to consider when company changing printers i.e. Clear out the print queues on the print servers? Adding new drivers? Things to look out for?

Thanks,

Tuan

Tuan

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Cannot change printer driver in print server / "Printer settings could not be saved. This operation is not supported."

July 15, 2015, 7:32 pm
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I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 64bit Print Server

In "Print Management" I right-click on my Brother MFC-8420DN printer and choose "Porperties".  Then under "Advanced" tab I used the "New Driver" button to install the latest 64bit driver for Windows 2012 R2 from brother.com (http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc8480dn_us&os=10002)

Adding the driver went fine without a hitch.  Now my new driver appears in the "Driver" list.  Currently it is using the driver "Brother Laser Leg Type1 Class Driver".

I change the driver to "Brother MFC-8480DN Printer."

Click "Apply".  Error window appears:

Printer settings could not be saved.
This operation is not supported.

:(

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cannot add domain printer in Windows Server 2008 R2 / "Windows cannot connect to the printer." / Error 0x00000002

July 14, 2015, 8:43 pm
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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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server 2012 print confirmation balloon disappeared

November 4, 2015, 11:46 pm
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hello all 

Got a weird 1... in all of my servers 2012 R2 the print confirmation balloon that says "this document was sent to the printer" stopped appearing...

im using a 2012 r2 print server with 2012 r2 RDS farm

i tried the following:
* open devices and printers > print server properties > verify "show informational notifications for local/network printers"
* gpo start menu and taskbar > turn off all balloon notifications = disabled
registry - verified the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Settings contains:
EnableBalloonNotificationsLocal = 1
EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote = 1

still no balloons appear... anyone had this problem before?

thanks 

Sean.

 


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Terminal server lost printers

November 10, 2015, 8:10 am
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I am running terminal services on Server 2008 r2 x64 VM.  It has been up and running well for years.  Suddenly it has lost all printers.  Other terminal servers are still working well.  The affected server is able to ping and navigate to the print server, however, when I try to re-install the printer, I get the error "Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000bc4). No printers were found." Event viewer is full of event 513 errors, [Group Policy was unable to add per computer connection \\<server>\<printer>. Error code 0xbc4. This can occur if the name of the printer connection is incorrect, or if the print spooler cannot contact the print server.]  Also have many event 601 [The print spooler failed to download and import the printer driver from \\<server> into the driver store for driver <print driver>. Error code= 800f0242.]


The print server and terminal server have been restarted and the errors continue.  We have made no recent network changes. 

what am I missing to restore printing to the terminal server

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where do I find print spooler

November 10, 2015, 3:17 pm
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I cannot find the print spooler to be able to stop as a delete action is blocked
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Windows 2012 R2 not giving me local printer when connected via RDP

November 11, 2015, 11:29 am
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Hello everyone, 

I am breaking my head trying to figure a way to get my 2012R2 to give local printer for the staff that are remotely login in to the server. I did make sure that local devices and resources are checked and available to use. 

Any advise pointing in the right direction will be appreciated. 

Thank you 

Andre 

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