Network printers on Terminal Servers

Hi,
We have 14 terminal servers (2008) that we work on and every time we add/remove a printer, I've been manually going onto each server and making the change (which is especially time consuming when adding network printers). I'm just wondering if anyone knows
a faster way to do this without going on to each TS and adding printer, etc? I know there is the Easy Print but we do not use it for various reasons. Also, all of our printers are on each TS, they are not user specific so it seems it should be easier. Any
ideas?

Hi,
Thanks for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
According to your comment, I can suggest you to try a script to add/remove printers. Go through beneath article for detail.
Add and Remove Printers
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/10ab836d-4d38-45a5-8d27-ba9af1717930
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

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Recently we’ve installed more than 100 “HP Laser Jet 600 M601 M602 M603 PCL 6” and about 80 “HP Laser Jet 400 M401 PCL 6” printers on a site. Print Server was raised on the file server. Since installation finished, we faced strange problems. A user
desktop becomes irresponsible when printing the document using “HP Laser Jet 600 M601 M602 M603 PCL 6” series printer.
Users log on to their desktop using 5 Terminal Servers. Printer drivers, downloaded from manufacturer’s website, were installed on all 5 TSs and 1 File Server. So, “HP Laser Jet 400 M401 PCL 6” series printers works very well, but other printers are not.
We think of drivers, but can’t find
Thank you for any help in advance… Any help is appreciated
System: Win Server 2008 R2
Printers are network printers

Hi, If you use LPD with the M601 I would check that thread;
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/78a56c1f-6276-48d7-bf00-a70d71e87feb
There seem to be a driver problem with that model.
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Figured out what appears, so far, to be a solution to those having issues with older network printers and the loss of Appletalk in SL.
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3. Plug in your printer's cat 5 cable into the adapter and the adapter into an open USB port.
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5. Go to Print & Fax in System Preferences and click on the "+" button to add a new printer.
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Hi George,
Does this happen for every Network Printer or specific one?
Did you find any network performance problem during your issue?
Firstly, please check your printer driver, update to the latest version on both client side and Terminal server. If you are using Easy print driver then you can try to disable that and check the result. For that you need to disable the option “Use
Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” under below path.
Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Terminal Server\Printer Redirection
In addition also check there is no any network issue. More information:
1. Printer Redirection
2. Bandwidth Allocation for Terminal Server connections over RDP
Hope it helps!
Thanks.

Client Side Rendering on Terminal Servers

I’m having horrible printer issues on my Terminal Servers such as slow printing, slow to add printers, some applications load slowly because they are enumerating the list of printer (thanks Procmon), slow logons, etc. I'm trying to get Client Side Rendering
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On my print servers I have verified that all printers have Render print jobs on client computer unchecked. I have a Group Policy linked to the OU that the Terminal Servers are in that has
Always render print jobs on the server set to enabled. Per
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/02/10/ws2008-client-side-rendering.aspx I have verified that on each Terminal Server in
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers the
ForceCSREMFDespooling value is present & set to 1 so the GP is being applied.
However I still have tons of entries in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\Servers\<SERVERNAME>\Printers.
I have found KB958656 which seems to describe my problem that CSR is not being disabled. However one of the files it updates is older than a file that I have (win32spl.dll) & one is newer (printcom.dll).
Printcom.dll in hotfix is 6.0.6001.22288 mine is 6.0.6001.18000
Win32spl.dll in hotfix is 6.0.6001.22288 mine is 6.0.6002.18005
Has anyone else seen this behavior & been able to get CSR disabled?
Has anyone else had success with the KB hotfix mentioned or know whether or not installing it would causing any issues (since it has that older file)?
Thanks in an advance to any input.
Patrick Hoban
http://patrickhoban.wordpress.com

Alan/Patrick,
Hi, sorry, went away on leave for a while so didn’t respond.
Alan – our case was REG:112081612189183.
For someone who has been dealing with MS support for about 20 years, this was the most disappointing of any support call I’ve ever had raised – to have the call shut
down, without a perfmon trace, process explorer analysis, or hang dump analysis (of spooler) – and simply blame “3<sup>rd</sup> party drivers” without any proof – is utterly deplorable.
Anyway, for anyone’s benefit who has similar problems – trying to do direct printing from RDS – I’ve managed to get a solution working.
Here are the details;
A nightly print spooler clean-up script that;
Stops the spooler
Deletes the entire key under “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider”
Re-creates the key (empty) and sets the value "RemovePrintersAtLogoff"=dword:00000000
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InactiveGuidPrinterTrim) with specific values. If we used these MS support recommended values, our RDS serer would not enumerate printers for more than 3-4 hours before requiring a restart of the spooler.
Restart the spooler
Map a printer (just to make sure it works)
Clean up the USERS\.DEFAULT\Printers key on all existing servers
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USERS\.DEFAULT\Printers
Deny Set value
Deny Create Subkey
Run NGREGOPT on all servers to compress the DEFAULT and SOFTWARE hives back down.
Even though we had deleted the crap from “Client Side Rendering Print Provider” and the DEFAULT user hive, the registry files were still large of course, and needed to be compressed to reduce
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Note, make sure no users are on the server when this is run !
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Cleaning up the keys and using NGREGOPT has fixed this.
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Hi Robert,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please check the answer by Clarence Zhang for some basic suggestion.
RDS printing best practices
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4dc0e050-a6ca-42d3-86f6-17babc3003fe/rds-printing-best-practices?forum=winserverTS
WS2008: Terminal Services Printing
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/02/17/ws2008-terminal-services-printing.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

Adobe Reader does not see all network printers

Hi,
Any help on below would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
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Uninstalled/installed printers to print servers
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The proposed solution of changing default printers does not work for me!
Does anybody have a real explanation as to what causes this problem and a real solution for it?
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Hi George,
Does this happen for every Network Printer or specific one?
Did you find any network performance problem during your issue?
Firstly, please check your printer driver, update to the latest version on both client side and Terminal server. If you are using Easy print driver then you can try to disable that and check the result. For that you need to disable the option “Use
Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” under below path.
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In addition also check there is no any network issue. More information:
1. Printer Redirection
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Hope it helps!
Thanks.

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For now I brought ServerA back online and people are working.
What am I missing or should be doing differently? Any issue with local security that would prevent one server to not accept commands directed to another servername? Thanks for your input!
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Printer1/ServerA ---> shutdown ServerA ---> Printer1/ServerB while those with Printer1/ServerA definitions on their workstations would still print.

When I last went from 2003 to 2008 R2, I did things a bit different. I brought up the new server and migrated all printers. I then had both servers running at the same time with the same configuration but all the clients
were pointing to the old server. To move the clients I deployed this vbs script to all users using group policy as a logon script:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/20428e3a-12c6-4354-bddf-d748367fca72#content. I left both servers running for some
time until all users were redirected. I frequently then checked the old servers event logs for any print jobs until I no longer saw any and then shutdown the old server. Hope that makes sense.
+1, I kinda do it that way too. (except I didnt know that script, as I used GPP to erase all printer connected & I was re-doing the printer connection after with GPP too)
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