We use the Deployed Printers feature in the Print Management console to deploy printers to users. As part of the printer migration that I have been working on, I needed to modify all of these GPOs so that all of the policies directed all of the users to the new print server. There are over
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Windows 2012: PrintService EventID 812 Error 0x5
Been working on a print server migration, and with the cutover we started noticing a lot of these errors in the PrintService Operational Log. This log has to be enabled before you will get these errors if you have not done so already. As part of the setup of this print server, a dedicated disk
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Clean Up Unused Printer Drivers
Working on a printer migration project, and one of the first steps was to clean up the existing print servers so that when running the migration. I wanted a way to contact remote print servers too. This script, once imported allows cleanup of remote print servers. Requires Powershell 4, so run off a Windows 8/Windows
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Specified Port is Unknown error when adding Network Printers
Just finished investigating and resolving an error whereby the message ‘Specified Port is Unknown’ appears when adding a network printer. This was first noticed when running a login script that add’s printers didn’t actually add any printers. To fix this problem, you need to delete references to the printer drivers in the registry. I had
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