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  • Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:56 PM
     
     
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    I have A Server 2008 R2 box which I am running a domain from; I have set up OU's and have organised and set out my users and computers and can confirm that Group Policy is being applied.  I have setup the file and printing role and setup an HP P2055DN printer to be deployed by group policy by enabling 'Point and Print Restrictions' and linking the deployment to the appropriate GPO's created earlier.  This all appears to be working from my machine when Group Policy is applied but when I close Devices and Printers and open it again I get this ghosted version of the same printer.  Is there a reason for this and if so is there a fix?
     

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  • Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:38 AM
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    Hi,

    How you deployed this printer, through the policy “Point and Print Restrictions”?

    The Point and Print Restrictions group policy enables you to limit the servers to which a user can Point and Print. When a user connects to a printer that is shared on a print server listed in the Point and Print Restrictions group policy, Point and Print installs the necessary printer drivers and does not require any additional user interaction. If the user connects to a shared printer on any other print server, Point and Print will not download a printer driver to the client computer. The user may still be able to use the printer but only if they do not need to download the printer driver.

    To deploy a printer through group policy, you can use print management wizard or PushPrinterConnection.exe file.

    For more information please refer to following MS articles:

    Deploy printers by using Group Policy
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179(v=WS.10).aspx

    Lawrence

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  • Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:28 PM
     
     
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    Yes the Printer was deployed using the Printer Management within MMC.  I have noticed today that I have two P2055DN Printers one is "on <Server Name>" and one simply is named "P2055DN".  When you hover over the duplicated printer it says pending deletion.  (This is all after a reboot of both the server and my workstation).
     
  • Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:35 PM
     
     
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    Now it's gone back to the ghosted printer again but this time showing four documents in the queue titled Remote Desktop Redirected Printer Document.
     
  • Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:06 AM
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    Hi,

    Is this issue happened on your Server or your client side? Is it happened on a single client or all clients? Are you using remote desktop?

    Have you defined printer redirection settings in group policy or Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool?

    > Now it's gone back to the ghosted printer again but this time showing four documents in the queue titled
    > Remote Desktop Redirected Printer Document.

    Could you please provide a screen capture, and give us feedback about above questions for further troubleshooting.

    For more information please refer to following MS articles:

    Per-machine printer connections that are deployed by using group policies may not be removed completely from Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1-based computers
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960594
    Printer Redirection
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791784(v=WS.10).aspx
    Remote Desktop Services Printer Redirection
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee890922(v=WS.10).aspx

    Lawrence

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  • Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:23 AM
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    Hi,

    I would like to confirm what is the current situation? Have you resolved the problem?

    If there is anything that we can do for you, please do not hesitate to let us know, and we will be happy to help.

    Lawrence

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