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Migrating Print Queues quickly using PRINTBRM, configuration files, and the...
Good morning AskPerf! Digvijay here to chat about print server migration. All server admins have probably had an opportunity to migrate print servers. This process can be fast and easy when migrating...
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Windows 7 client machines show printers offline on Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello AskPerf! I’m Craig Marcho, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Microsoft Platforms Core Team. There has been an increase in cases lately with Windows 7 Clients and Windows Server 2008 R2...
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Simplifying printing in Windows 8
Hello AskPerf Blog Readers! Steven Sinofsky published the below blog last week just in case you missed it. It was authored by one of our lead Program Managers on the Printing team. It talks about...
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How to increase the number of Printers listed in Add Printer Wizard
Good morning AskPerf! Akash Nema here from the Performance team. Today we are going to chat about how to tweak the printer list presented when using the Add Printer Wizard in Windows 7. We frequently...
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CAPS and CNAME Alias Records
Hi AskPerf readers, this is Paul from the Microsoft Remote Resources Support Team. We have been receiving a number of support questions concerning the use of Client Access Points (CAPs) and the use of...
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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: How do I print in Windows 8 Modern UI...
It’s day 13 of our Launch Series and we are nearing the finish line. Today we are going to look at ways to print from your Modern UI Apps.So you have loaded Windows 8, and need to print from one of...
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Unable to connect to a printer using a CNAME record
Good morning AskPerf! My name is Sandeep Bhatia and I work with Networking team here in Microsoft Support. In today’s post, we will discuss Print issues when using a CNAME on Windows 2008 R2 Server,...
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Microsoft Fixit for Printing UPDATED for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello folks. This is a quick post to inform you that the “Microsoft Fixit for Printing” is now live with .msi packages for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We know a lot of you have been asking...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager Crashes when clicking on Local Computer
Hello everyone! I am writing today to raise awareness of an issue that we have come across recently. I was working on a case with a customer where Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 would crash...
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Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 – NFC “tap to connect” Printer Connections
Hello folks, today I am going to talk about a new feature that's available in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 called NFC “tap to connect” Printing. NFC stands for Near Field Communication,...
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Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 - Printer Roaming
Hello again AskPerf! Today I’m going to introduce a new Windows 8.1 feature called Printer Roaming.Windows 8 provided the ability for users to roam a number of settings with their Microsoft account,...
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Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 - In-box Scan App
Welcome back AskPerf readers! Prior to Windows 8.1, scanning could be a relatively frustrating experience with many questions coming to mind…Will my scanner work on Windows RT?Do I need to download a...
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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...
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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 get...
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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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