Steve Groner
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Windows 2003/2008 Terminal Services and Printers
I have several terminal servers with a ton of users. Each user has printers installed under their accounts pointing to network printers some read xxxPrinterxxx on {servername}. Some are printers that were installed for the user looking like a local printer IP printer. These printers obviously only show up under each users accounts. What I have done is add all of our printers directly to the server which is hosting the Terminal Services. The way I understand it is that the printers under the user accounts are called Client Printers and the printers I installed on the server directly are called SERVER PRINTERS. Here is what I need to do. I have already written into the login script to simply set the DEFAULT printer for each user to point to one of the SERVER printers, but I want to remove all of the printers installed under the users accounts so that the onyl printers they see are the SERVER printers. Does anyone know how I would do that. I had a script that eliminated true network printers that contained "\\" in the name but that obviously does not work for local client printers. I am using VBS scripting as my login script can anyone give me a hand with how to remove these unwanted printers?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Thanks but wrong printers. Those I know how to get rid of I am referring to printers, that are installed "IN SESSION" on a terminal server. User Logs in, clicks on Add Printer --> etc..... these printers only show up for that user and are added to the list of SERVER printers that are installed locally on the server. The printers that were added during the USER's session are the printers I am trying to get rid of.
But thanks for replying.
But thanks for replying.
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That is the solution I needed. Thank you very much.
I'm glad I could help!
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking about at first: I thought you wanted to get rid of redirected printers.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking about at first: I thought you wanted to get rid of redirected printers.
To do that in 2003:
1. Click on Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools
2. Click on Terminal Services Configuration
3. Double-click on the connection type (either RDP-TCP or ICA-TCP for citrix)
4. Click on the Client Settings tab
5. Under the "Disable the following" section at the bottom, check off the option for "Windows Printer Mapping"
6. If you also want to disable LPT or COM port mapping for printers, check those options as well
7. Click OK & then exit TS Config to implement the change.
The options are a bit different in 2008:
1. Click on Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Terminal Services
2. Click on Terminal Services Configuration
3. Double-click on the connection type (either RDP-TCP or ICA-TCP for citrix)
4. Click on the Client Settings tab
5. Under the "Disable the following" section at the bottom, check off the option for "Windows Printer"
6. If you also want to disable LPT or COM port mapping for printers, check those options as well
7. Click OK & then exit TS Config to implement the change.
This would have to repeated on every terminal server since this is a local setting. I don't believe it's it's possible to restrict this in a GPO. This change won't effect any users currently logged on to the system: they will see the change the next time they log on.
But, this won't remove the printers from their local systems: it will just remove the printers from their remote session on the TS.
If you want to remove the local printers from the PCs, there are VBS scripts and command line tools you can use to do that.
Alicia