Printers auto installing with WSD Port

Question

Hi everyone,
We are currently building our Windows 8.1 image for our business. In a recent deployment test, we noticed that some printers are installing automatically on some workstations.
Those printers are installed using a WSD Port.
I'm looking for a way to disable WSD in my Windows 8.1 image since we are using Novell iPrint to install our printers.
I've spent a couple of hours looking around Google for a solution but nothing came up.
Any clue?

Answer 1

Hi,
I think the reply by Alan in the thread below answered your question:
Disable PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator service
The PnP-X bus enumerator service manages the virtual network bus. It discovers network connected devices using the SSDP/WS discovery protocols and gives them presence in PnP. If this service is stopped or disabled, presence of NCD devices will not be
maintained in PnP. All pnpx based scenarios will stop functioning.
Or
Use the drop down when initially creating ports and select Standard TCP/IP Port.  The query first performs WSD, if this fails, goes to SNMP, if this fail, user is prompted to manual port configuration.
You can find the IP in device mananger in the properties of the WSD Print device (Location Information).
You can't delete these port unless you are deleting a printer at the same time so once you switch the existing printer to IP, you will need to create a fake printer to clean up the port.
You can refer to the link below for more details:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/26ff7f74-12eb-4695-963e-490f6681460e/print-server-role-server-08-r2-hp-wsd-printer-ports
Roger Lu
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