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Windows 7: No More NET PRINT
Happy Friday AskPerf! No, that’s not a typo in the title, the NET PRINT functionality no longer exists in Windows 7. The decision to deprecate the functionality was based on usage data and the fact...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: What’s New in Printing and Printing...
Welcome back to our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 Launch Series. Day Six and we’re going strong. Today we’re going to switch our focus today from the Core OS to Printing, beginning with a brief...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: PMC Enhancements
Welcome to Day 7 of our Launch Series for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We’re continuing on with our coverage of Printing and Document services – today’s topic is the Print Management Console...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Print Driver Isolation
Welcome back folks! It’s Day Eight. We’re just over one-third of the way through our series and there are only two more weeks until launch day! Raise your hand if you’ve ever had to deal with a...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: PrintBRM
Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to Day Nine of our Launch Series for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We’re continuing on with Printing today – specifically a look at PrintBRM. PrintBRM was...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Location-Aware Printing
Good Morning AskPerf Readers! Welcome to Day Ten of our Launch Series. Our theme this week has been Printing, and today we’ll be continuing in that vein. Our topic today is Location-Aware Printing....
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Distributed Scan Management
Happy Sunday, everyone! Welcome to Day Eleven of our Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series. Today, we’re going to wrap up our look at Printing and Document Services with an overview...
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Print driver installation on 32-bit versus 64-bit servers
This is in continuation of the topic discussed by John Dickson in his blog post entitled Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003...
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Delegating Printer Management Tasks in Windows Server 2003
Hello AskPerf readers. My name is Randy Grogan and this is my first post on this blog. If you are familiar with some of the Printing Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 then you may already know...
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Installing cross-architectural print drivers from the server locally
Hello Everyone. This is Digvijay once again with a new blog post about my favorite component – Printing. Since the release of Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 there have been several times where we...
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Windows Print Cluster Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 to Windows...
In recent months we have seen an increasing volume of print cluster cases being opened due to poor performance. For example slow failover or spooler crashes. This article is provided as a guide for...
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Cross-Architecture print server migrations: Speeding up the migration process
Hello everyone, it’s been a long time! Today we’ll discuss about cross-architecture print server migrations. With the current and future line of windows servers moving exclusively to x64 architecture,...
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The case of the vanishing print jobs
A while back, I worked on an interesting issue involving RDS EasyPrint. The issue was that the printers from the client were getting redirected in the RDS session using easy print driver. However no...
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Print Queue Scripting
Many methods of programmatically working with printers exist and I’ll be going over the main ones we use on the Windows platform support teams in this blog. These can be real lifesavers for print...
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Two Minute Drill: Change Print Monitors/Processors via PowerShell
Hello folks, Pankaj here to show you an interesting way to change the Print Monitors and Processors registry keys with a single PowerShell command. This command can be a timesaver if you have hundreds...
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Default Print Device Selection Behavior in Windows
Good Morning AskPerf Readers! Our theme today is printing, specifically Default Printer selection behavior. We regularly get asked the question on what causes the default printer to change on a Windows...
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Microsoft Fixit for Printing
Good morning AskPerf world! Jeff Hagler from the Remote Resources team here to chat about printing. How many of you have ever dealt with an issue where you just knew that something was wrong with...
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Internet Printing – How Windows decides if http or RPC is used for a Print...
We often get asked from time to time how to force printers that a user has installed on their workstation using the IPP website to use RPC in lieu of the Internet printing protocol. There is a document...
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Performance issues due to Inactive Terminal Server Ports
Good morning AskPerf! There are several issues that have been associated with a high number of inactive Terminal Server ports. Delayed logon times to RDP sessions, failure of printers to redirect,...
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Print update rollup available for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
A new printing hotfix rollup was released that updates the core print spooler components localspl.dll, splwow64.exe, spoolsv.exe, win32spl.dll, and Winprint.dll. This rollup is designed to reduce...
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