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Have you looked for updated drivers for the printers in question?
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Have you looked for updated drivers for the printers in question?

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Hi, it was ok until yesterday, than suddenly it stopped printing for 2 difrent printers.<br />
Thx<br />

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Hi, it was ok until yesterday, than suddenly it stopped printing for 2 difrent printers.
Thx


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Do you have PrinterScout installed? &nbsp;Check this link <a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/696e67cc-006c-4ea7-bc2a-04a59270ab0c" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/696e67cc-006c-4ea7-bc2a-04a59270ab0c</a>
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Do you have PrinterScout installed?  Check this link http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/696e67cc-006c-4ea7-bc2a-04a59270ab0c [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/696e67cc-006c-4ea7-bc2a-04a59270ab0c]

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pgerard thx, but it's xerox only.<br />
We're encountering this with 2 diffrent printers, 1 Xerox and 1 HP.<br />

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pgerard thx, but it's xerox only.
We're encountering this with 2 diffrent printers, 1 Xerox and 1 HP.


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Hi Experts,<br />
<br />
We've got a strange issue with an SBS 2k3 which does not like to print to network printers anymore.<br />
When sending a print to one of the 2 network printers, no packets are being sent at all (visible via Wireshark), and the error which we recieve is: <br />
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Status not available<br />
Printer status is not available at this time.<br />
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After the box with the message is being closed manually by pressing OK, the test page which we sent to the printer is being stuck in the spooler forever.<br />
<br />
The SBS is at bad shape, most of the wizards are not fumctional and the DNS is also in bad shape, so we're well aware that we're far from working in the best practice.<br />
<br />
We would appericiate any help.<br />
<br />
Thx<br />
<br />

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Hi Experts,

We've got a strange issue with an SBS 2k3 which does not like to print to network printers anymore.
When sending a print to one of the 2 network printers, no packets are being sent at all (visible via Wireshark), and the error which we recieve is: 

Status not available
Printer status is not available at this time.

After the box with the message is being closed manually by pressing OK, the test page which we sent to the printer is being stuck in the spooler forever.

The SBS is at bad shape, most of the wizards are not fumctional and the DNS is also in bad shape, so we're well aware that we're far from working in the best practice.

We would appericiate any help.

Thx



SBS does not print to network printer

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).