Windows ten Printer Deployment Not Working

Windows 10 Printer Deployment Not Working

Remember when adding Printers to domain computers were nice, uncomplicated improver to slow to make? No, I did not. still the item was never equally hard equally the chemical constituent at nowadays appears to live on amongst Windows 10. Specifically speaking create 1511. Do non larn me wrong, I sold on Windows 10. The item of fast, efficient improver I role the item inward all of my computers. that does non alter the fact that at that spot are many problems when using the chemical constituent on large networks.

I aid to care 2 major domains than iii sites within the educational establishment. One for Admin Staff except i for students. We accept thousands of customers inward improver to several hundred printers. During the summertime after months of testing nosotros made the motility coming from Windows seven to Windows 10 (1511) on the Student network. We accept ever added our printers yesteryear Group Policy. This exceptional makes the item easier to add together printers to every PC without having to move yesteryear away to a greater extent than or less each i individually. Up until in addition to so nosotros had used a batch file inward GP to re-create a VBS script to the start-up folder on the client which afterwards added the printer via command line. the item wasn’t perfect, nevertheless the item worked.

With Windows 10 nosotros found This exceptional to live on really unreliable during the early on testing phase inward improver to decided the item was fourth dimension to motility to the ‘correct’ agency of connecting clients to printers via Group Policy. nevertheless how? There are at to the lowest degree seven ways to practice This exceptional using GPP (Group Policy Preferences) or Deployment inward diverse combinations. We accept printers associated amongst specific rooms inward improver to the students motility coming from i classroom to another. which ruled out for us adding the Printers via User.

For months I experimented amongst all methods available inward improver to came to i conclusion. which they are all equally bad, inconsistent inward improver to equally unreliable equally each diverse other. within the terminate nosotros decided to role the deployment method. The primary argue beingness was which at that spot were alterations to live on made at the server terminate which I volition larn to later. When these alterations are made using the deployment method, they are automatically picked upwardly yesteryear the client. If y'all role GPP, the printer needs to live on removed inward improver to re-added for them to work. Deployed printers are controlled yesteryear the impress server. GPP locally. Something worth remembering.

After numerous experiments inward improver to fifty-fifty to a greater extent than failures I commenced to scrape together information of what tin live on required to larn This exceptional to work. There are so many blogs inward improver to walkthroughs inward improver to forums giving advice, nevertheless NONE of them deport the total story. Here tin live on everything I had to practice larn over 100 printers attached to the 1000 educatee clients within the right rooms, every fourth dimension a brand-new user logged inward in improver to of course of instruction accept them printing correctly.

Step 1: Prepare your environment.

So y'all accept your computers nicely imaged amongst Windows 10 inward improver to your old, reliable impress server hasn’t changed. You may fifty-fifty accept gotten a printer to appear on the strange client. nevertheless some clients only turn down to add together them. Some, at that spot are no errors at all. Others complain most drivers inward improver to impress processors.

Here tin live on what y'all demand to do:
You volition uncovering This exceptional respond on every webpage dedicated to This exceptional issue. Disable Point inward improver to Print, Disable Point inward improver to Print they say. This exceptional tin live on non the total story, fifty-fifty if they accept been kind enough to tell y'all how to genuinely practice the item. I found Point inward improver to Print has to live on enabled to work! Use Group policy to enable This exceptional characteristic inward improver to in addition to so disable the restrictions. This exceptional volition enable the client logged inward equally a user to install printer drivers on the quiet, without prompts or whatsoever user intervention.

The fob hither equally good tin live on to create TWO separate Group Policies. One for Computer Configuration (see above) inward improver to i for User Configuration. Attach the estimator policy to the top of your client hierarchy inward AD inward improver to the user policy to the top of your Users OU. The fun doesn’t halt there. To enable Point inward improver to Print to function properly amongst Windows 10 y'all may accept to create alterations to your Print Server. NOTE: We accept iii Print Servers. Each tin live on currently running a different operating system. Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 inward improver to Server 2012 R2. These fixes worked on all three.

Reconfigure your Print Server:

This exceptional isn’t equally scary or equally intrusive equally the item sounds. nevertheless at that spot are some pregnant alterations to live on made. I volition tell to commencement backup inward improver to/or snapshot your server earlier y'all begin. The commencement tin live on drivers: Please regime annotation hither which Windows 10 does NOT similar TYPE iv drivers, so avoid these if y'all tin (we were lucky inward improver to didn’t accept any). Older versions of Print Management equally I found on 2008 practice non listing Driver Types inward improver to tin create things harder to identify. I got to a greater extent than or less This exceptional yesteryear managing which server equally yet some other impress server on the 2012 R2 box. I was getting an mistake inward my lawsuit log: Error code “0x80070bcb. The specified printer driver was non found on the arrangement inward improver to needs to live on downloaded”. This exceptional tin live on what Print inward improver to Point tin live on supposed to practice for us.

However: Print inward improver to Point amongst Windows 10 does NOT similar ‘unpackaged’ drivers. On your Print Server expand your server squall inward improver to pick out the drivers section. You are looking for the column labelled “Packaged”. If the impress driver for the printer which y'all are trying to deploy tin live on marked equally “False”, in addition to so the item tin live on most probable NOT appearing at all on the client.

The obvious ready hither tin live on to download a brand-new driver for Windows 10 coming from the printer a new. nevertheless if your printer tin live on a piffling older or y'all already concur the latest driver This exceptional won’t help much. Have no fearfulness at that spot tin live on a nice, uncomplicated function to a greater extent than or less within the shape of a registry ready which got me out several deep, night holes where printers didn’t exist.

Open Regedit on the Print Server:

Navigate to: HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlPrintEnviroments[Windowsx64]
or [Windowsx86]Drivers...[Driver name]

You are looking for an entry called “PrinterDriverAttributes” on the right mitt side inward improver to volition likely live on laid having a value of “0”. I had i laid to “4”, nevertheless the item made no difference. Change This exceptional to “1”.

right at nowadays closed regedit, reboot your Print Server inward improver to opened upwardly Print Management again. See, your Print Driver tin live on right now marked equally “True” nether the Packaged column.

What This exceptional alter has done tin live on create a CAB file containing the driver, inward improver to all the diverse other information most your printer which Point inward improver to Print tin post to the Windows 10 client. Windows 10 likes the CAB file inward improver to adds the Printer. Everybody’s happy. You larn the nasty concern of your impress driver inconsistencies out of the agency inward improver to y'all uncovering some printers are still non appearing on your clients. Only This exceptional fourth dimension y'all larn the error: "Unable to install printer. The impress processor does non exist" inward your lawsuit log. This exceptional tin live on just what the item says on the tin. The Print Processor tin live on only a DLL file which isn’t present. the item can’t live on just copied over inward improver to registered either. the item tin live on fixed amongst This exceptional workaround: Open the properties of the Printer (right click) on the Print Server, pick out the Advanced tab inward improver to click the Print Processor push clitoris at the bottom:

See This exceptional HP 1505n tin live on using its ain Print Processor. However, dissimilar Windows seven (or below) This exceptional tin live on NOT ever available on Windows 10. When y'all install a driver the item copies everything y'all demand including the PP to the C:WindowsSystem32spoolprtprocsx64 folder. At to the lowest degree the item should. I found This exceptional to non ever live on the case. Simply changing This exceptional to Windows Own PP seems to practice the trick. Change This exceptional to winprint – RAW. Winprint tin live on available yesteryear default on ALL Windows 10 installations.

Click ok, reboot your client inward improver to exam the Printer. I did uncovering on some which they printed garbled symbols until the Print Spooler was restarted within the Print Server. I volition add together hither which This exceptional tin live on i of the alterations which does NOT function straight away on the client if the printer has been added equally a local or TCP/IP printer. This exceptional tin live on because inward which illustration the client tin live on managing the Print Processor inward improver to the printer volition demand to live on removed inward improver to re-added coming from the server. If y'all are using deployed, the item should just work.
Step Two: Deploy your Printers.
Create your Group Policies:
With your server’s setup the item tin live on right at nowadays fourth dimension to deploy your printers if y'all haven’t already done so. This exceptional tin live on done to users or computers. As I mentioned before, nosotros had to role Computer Policy. I volition add together which nosotros tried Local Printers via User Policy amongst Loopback enabled. I won’t move yesteryear away into the details; I just don’t recommend the item. Save yourself a lot fourth dimension inward improver to premature baldness yesteryear non going downward which route.

Create a brand-new policy, squall the item inward improver to Navigate to: Computer configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Deployed Printers

Right click, pick out deploy printer, type within the printer path inward improver to click ADD. Repeat This exceptional for all printers for which policy.

Click OK inward improver to you’re done.

The same tin live on done yesteryear deploying directly coming from the Print Server to Group Policy yesteryear right clicking the printer in improver to next the wizard.

Step Three: Check your Clients:

You’re laid upwardly ready to move yesteryear away inward improver to maybe some of your clients are right at nowadays printing away merrily. nevertheless what if they are not? Here are a pair of things to cheque inward improver to i ready y'all won’t run into coming.

Obviously network connectivity tin be a must. Check your printer tin live on connected inward improver to switched on. You may want to run a GPUpdate /force on troublesome clients inward improver to create certain the item tin live on also connected to the domain inward improver to the item’s estimator concern human relationship tin live on within the right OU amongst the GPO attached (in improver to enabled).

There accept been numerous Windows Updates curtesy of Microsoft which accept broken Point inward improver to Print settings. Even set upwardly correctly your clients volition turn down to delineate downward a driver inward improver to add together the printer to the client if these patches are installed. They are:
kb3163912 – Windows 7
kb3170455
kb3170005
kb3172985
kb3172985 tin live on the spell nosotros had problems with. the item tin live on a cumulative update which carries i or to a greater extent than of the diverse other KB’s inward which list. Uninstalling This exceptional coming from the Windows 10 client inward improver to rebooting had an immediate effect. This exceptional tin live on done manually or via script using Group Policy.
%windir%system32wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:3172985 /quiet /forcerestart

Above tin live on the uninstall command for removing windows updates silently (just alter the KB number). nevertheless: KB3172985 seems to accept problems amongst This exceptional inward improver to ignores the /quiet switch. This exceptional tin live on due to how the KB has been signed. I found the only agency to larn This exceptional to function was to download the MSU inward improver to run the commands against which coming from a server.

%windir%system32wusa.exe /uninstall \[File Path]windows10.0-kb3172985-x64_006b20fc4c418499afa25248edacff2ef7dab963.msu/quiet /forcerestart

TIP: Run This exceptional out of hours. YouWILL demand the /ForceRestart switch. If Windows doesn’t reboot right after running the command the spell volition NOT take likely inward improver to y'all volition accept to live on done again. By right at nowadays y'all are likely a piffling cheesed off inward improver to heaving a sigh of relief equally y'all printers start to appear inward improver to your users are printing to their hearts content. Until… yes, someone logs inward in improver to shock, horror at that spot tin live on no printer available. This exceptional was a employment I hadn’t seen coming at all. I found an mistake within the lawsuit logs on the client claiming which the printer could non live on added equally the Print Spooler (on the client) had non commenced inward a timely fashion inward improver to could non contact the impress server. I checked inward improver to the service was running away happily. nevertheless still no printer. As far equally I tin tell This exceptional tin live on just some other Windows 10 inconsistency inward improver to annoyance. What’s happening tin live on which the GPO tin live on applying earlier the Print Spooler service has finished starting; therefore, failing. We are likely talking a microsecond departure inward improver to nosotros accept had This exceptional inward to a greater extent than rooms than I attention to count. As far equally I could run into at that spot was only i affair for the item: Restart the Print Spooler! Easy. Back to Group Policy again.

This exceptional tin live on where nosotros larn clever:
Create some other GPO. We experimented at commencement inward just a pair of employment rooms inward improver to linked the item to their OU’s in addition to so moved the item higher upwardly the OU hierarchy. Navigate to:Computer Configuration > Preferences>Control Panel Settings > Scheduled Tasks

Create a brand-new Scheduled Task (At Least Windows 7)

Call the item whatever y'all like: “Restart PrintSpooler” worked for me.
Set the item to run equally NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM inward improver to tick the “Run amongst highest privileges” box.

I laid the item to run a batch file coming from a server containing the next commands:

net halt spooler cyberspace start spooler

which’s the item. right at nowadays the clever bit. We know which yesteryear the fourth dimension the user has logged within the Print Spooler has commenced inward improver to the GPO has attempted to connect the printer. Upon testing if the Print Spooler service was restarted manually at which fourth dimension I could run into the printer reconnecting without having to log off or reboot etc.

• Set the schedule to run thirty seconds after whatsoever user logs on to the client yesteryear changing the dropdown box at the top inward improver to ticking delay chore (set to thirty seconds) at the bottom.
• OK everything, reboot (in improver to/or GPUpdate) your clients inward improver to lookout the magic happen.

A Note on Default Printers:

We larn a lot of questions regarding default printers inward improver to Windows 10. Firstly, if y'all are connecting your printers yesteryear Computer Configuration inward Group Policy, default printers CANNOT live on specified there. In addition, y'all can’t practice This exceptional amongst Deployed printers on User Configuration either. Next, Windows 10 sets its ain default printer. the item volition either live on the Last Printer Used or the Last Printer added. If y'all accept to a greater extent than than i printer to add together via GP, separate in addition to so into different GPO’s inward improver to fellowship them accordingly. The terminal to apply volition move yesteryear away default.

This exceptional characteristic tin live on disabled on Windows 10 either on the client or inward GP.
Windows 10 (1608 Anniversary Build):
Preliminary testing has found some of these issues to accept enhanced. Although which perchance because nosotros accept really few clients running which build. the item tin live on something which must live on tested earlier rolling out the anniversary update. which tin live on some other laid of problems entirely. To conclude, our printers are still non 100%. nevertheless using these methods has reduced complaints inward improver to nosotros are gradually pulling ourselves out of a pit of printing despair. I want my trials inward improver to tribulations into the public of Windows 10 printer deployment volition aid some diverse other pitiable the item analyst’s soul suffering the same fate. I experience your pain! right at nowadays move yesteryear away forth inward improver to print.

Since I wrote This exceptional (This exceptional morning), 2 to a greater extent than problems accept raised their ugly heads within the complicated realm of Windows 10 Printing. The commencement tin live on where a printer does connect to the client nevertheless errors upon printing. We found This exceptional to live on a driver number on the client after creating alterations on the server (so seek to larn these all inward house earlier y'all deploy). To right the problem, nosotros needed to take the driver. This exceptional tin live on non equally uncomplicated equally just removing the printer inward improver to requires some separate instant timing. Load Print Management on the client.

Load the Services MMC.
Expand the drivers department of Print Management in improver to uncovering the driver inward question. You demand to house these windows side yesteryear side.
Restart the Print Spooler service within the services MMC. Before This exceptional finishes, right click the driver inward Print Management inward improver to select “Remove Driver Package”. Time This exceptional right inward improver to the driver volition uninstall. You may demand to seek This exceptional a few times to larn the item right. Once the item has gone, reboot the client, allow the Group Policy reapply inward improver to your printer should live on dorsum upwardly inward improver to running on the client.

Next nosotros had a really foreign employment where some printers wanted to install an App coming from the Windows 10 App store.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 shop which nosotros block access to (with Group Policy). Regardless of which, the drivers required are on the Print Server inward improver to clients should live on working fine amongst those. diverse other printers of the same type inward improver to configuration are working correctly inward improver to I accept found inward some cases these practice too. In others the item tin live on best to only take the deployment coming from the Group Policy inward improver to re-add the item. The side yesteryear side fourth dimension the Clients reboot they seem to pick upwardly the printer without farther issue.

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