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Windows TS Printer Redirection Issues
Windows Remote Desktop Printer Redirection Issues

"Do not allow client printer redirection" in Group Policy Settings is enabled
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Case 1: The TS doesn't have printer driver installed. If only some printers are not redirected after connecting to remote computer, it could printer driver issue.. On the remote computer,  you may see Event ID: 1111 and Description: Driver drivername required for printer printertype is unknown. The resolution is installing the printer driver directly on the remote computer. If the computer is Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1, you may try  the Fallback Driver Capability instead. The policy for this is located under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Client / Server data redirection\Terminal Server Fallback Printer Driver Behavior. Note: The terminal server fallback printer driver is not included with Windows Server 2008. Although the Specify terminal server fallback printer driver behavior Group Policy setting still exists, it can only be used for computers running Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Case 2: Printer redirection is disabled in client Remote Desktop. When Printer redirection fails for a computer only, you may want to check the settings on the Remote Desktop on the problematic client and make sure that the Printers check box is checked to allow redirection as shown below.

Remote Desktop printer settings

Case 3: Windows Printer Mapping Check Box is disabled. To check the status of Windows Printer Mapping,  open the Remote Desktop Configuration (Terminal Services Configuration if it is Windows 2003 or previous version). Right click on RDP-Tcp and select properties.

Remote Desktop Configuration

Then select the Client Settings tab. Ensure that the Windows Printer (Windows Printer Mapping if it is Windows 2003) checkbox is not selected. If it is, that means that the Terminal Server will not allow client Printer Redirection.

Windows Printer Mapping

Case 4: "Do not allow client printer redirection" in Group Policy Settings is enabled. Printer Redirection can also be configured through Group Policy. The policy to prevent client printer redirection is located in the following container: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services if it is windows 2003)\Remote Desktop Session Host (or Client / Server Data Redirection). The name of the policy setting is "Do not allow client printer redirection" as shown below

Do not allow client printer redirction

If this configuration is enabled, it will prevent client printer redirection.

Case 5:
Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) Device Redirector is disabled. The server side component responsible for printer redirection is RDPDR.SYS. You can check the status of the  Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) Device Redirector in Device manager as shown below. If the  Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) Device Redirector is disabled, then device redirection will not work.

Make sure that  Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) Device Redirector is in enabled status. You can also use the following command to recreate this device: devcon -r install %windir%\inf\machine.inf root\rdpdr.

Terminal Server Devices Redirctor

Case 6: Registry may prevent printer redirection from functioning. If you have implemented the mentioned in Microsoft KB Article 268065 it will prevent printer redirection from functioning. As per this KB if the registry value fEnablePrintRDR is set to 0, Printer Redirection will fail even if the Print Spooler is started on the Terminal Server. This will not register any events. As part of your standard troubleshooting you should check whether the following value exists: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd\fEnablePrintRDR.

Case 7:
Need to upgrade remote desktop version. In some cases, it could be the Remote Desktop Client version on the problem machine. You should always ensure that you are running the latest RDP Client on your client machines.

Case 8: 
Multifunction print devices may not be redirected because of COM, LPT, or USB ports.  In other cases, some multifunction print devices may not be redirected unless you are running Windows Server 2003 on your local computer because they use DOT4 ports. Only W2K3 redirects printer port names that do not begin with COM, LPT, or USB. If you are using a Windows XP machine use the workaround mentioned in Microsoft KB Article 302361.

Printer Redirection Troubleshooting Tools:  Terminal Server Printer Redirection Wizard tool is a very useful tool to troubleshoot printer redirction issue.  This utility scans the Terminal Server's System Even log and detects all Event ID 1111 events with a source of "TermServDevices". The tool then scans the registry for installed Version 3 MINI drivers, and prompts the Administrator to substitute an installed driver for each of the printers that failed redirection. Any changes are written to a file where the custom redirected printer mappings are stored. The details can be found this post:

TS Printer Driver Redirection Wizard reports Error 3

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