Windows 2008 terminal server default printer

We are also using a session broker and for the above GPO's, the only one we have configured is "Redirect only the default client printer".

Servers are all Standard edition, service pack 1. We ran the hotfix, however we still have the same issue. Users are still seeing multiple redirected printers from other sessions. As a test, I deleted my profile from the servers in the farm and logged in until I had created a new profile on each of the servers. This appeared to solve the issue as I only saw my redirected network printers. However, by the next day, I was starting to see printers from other users sessions again.

Does anyone have any other ideas? NOw I am starting to suspect either a GPO or a logoff script that might be making trouble for you, as when you log on with a new profile things are great, but by the next day once you log off and back on again perhaps you have problems again. Can you look in these areas for any user permissions related changes, or changes that would affect printers in some way, or something that would give users more rights in general like making them domain admins or similar Thanks for your response.

The users do not have any elevated permissions on the terminal servers, we have only added them to the remote desktop users group. No loggoff scripts are in place. All the terminal servers in the app pool are Standard edition, service pack 1.

We are not using easy print and have the loaded all of the drivers for the network printers on each of the servers. Should the server that is our session broker have the drivers installed as well? None of the users are in "power users" on the server or their local PC's. The domain users groups was added to the "Remote Desktop" users group on each of the servers.

As soon as all printers were in place the trouble started. I've tried different methods to resolve this issue such as deleting old drivers, cleaning out the print server, registry editing. Frankly i'm out of ideas. We think it's related the User Profiles not being unloaded properly at Logoff, and the printers never clear out from User. Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services.

The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards. There is a bug in where redirected printer ports aren't removed upon logout and eventually it overflows or assigns bad ports to redirected printers.

Hotfix fixes this and there is a FixIt script on the KB article for clearing out those filled registry keys. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter.

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Are you mapping local printers through, if so check the default local printer is not this one. All network printers are connected to a print server. If your RDS sessions are mapping local printers, and you do have Docuware installed on the local machines which you just confirmed AND it is default, then this is likely why, if you don't print to any of the devices that are local to the physical connection the laptop, thin terminals then disable RDS printer mapping.

Gandolf I have this same problem with my terminal servers. Except in my case it is Adobe Printer is the local printer. I have been attempting to resolve this for many months as well and this is all I could come up with. Hopefully this will help you in the immediate future until something permanent comes along. Adobe Printer locally installed printer required for adobe acrobat : always the default for all users.

That's not going to work. I have way to many users to do that. There has to be something causing it besides some undocumented feature of Windows. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Popular Topics in Windows Server. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do I set the default printer for a RemoteApp?

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Improve this answer. At the risk of reviving old information. I had the direct opposite of this issue and reverse engineering the fix got me to get it fixed.