Printers deleting themselves from Windows 2008 R2 Print Server

We have a server that is seemingly randomly deleting the print objects from the server itself. When we look at the Print server console, we see that all the installed/shared printers are "Error - Deleting". If we clear the jobs in the queue, the
printer deletes itself. Stopping and restarting the spooler service doesn't help, rebooting the server hasn't helped.
We had this issue 2 weeks ago on the same server. We just recreated the printers and it's been fine until yesterday, then they all started deleting themselves. There doesn't appear to be anything in
any log we can find to point to a reason for this. We've even checked the login logs and it's only been 3 admins that have logged in to that server in the last 2 weeks. 1st time to rebuild the printers 2 weeks ago, and yesterday because the printers started
disappearing.
Anyone have some clues?

Hi Paul,
it is really interesting case.. I would start with checking event viewer under Applications and services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > PrintService > Admin and Operational (you have to enable second one first)
Any scheduled tasks? Group policies? system restore?
The only thing in the logs is that it is shifting the default printer when one of us logs into the server, using RDP by the way. There are no scheduled tasks, group policies or system restore being used.

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