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I have not seen that either, <br />
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Clear the Print Spooler<br />
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Right-click “Command Prompt” and select “Run as administrator“.<br />
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Type net stop spooler then press “Enter“.<br />
Type del %systemroot%\System32\spoo<wbr />l\printers<wbr />\* /Q then press “Enter“.<br />
Type net start spooler then press “Enter“.<br />
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Now in the same command window, run:<br />
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dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth<br />
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Best after this to restart the server. <br />
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Now set up a printer and test.
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I have not seen that either,

Clear the Print Spooler

Right-click “Command Prompt” and select “Run as administrator“.

Type net stop spooler then press “Enter“.
Type del %systemroot%\System32\spool\printers\* /Q then press “Enter“.
Type net start spooler then press “Enter“.

Now in the same command window, run:

dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Best after this to restart the server.

Now set up a printer and test.

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I can do this, but not sure how long it might take to recreate the problem.
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I can do this, but not sure how long it might take to recreate the problem.

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I looked up &quot;dism.exe&quot; &nbsp;and that does not sound like a good idea.<br />
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Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a command-line tool that can be used to service and prepare Windows images, including those used for Windows PE, Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Windows Setup. DISM can be used to service a Windows image (.wim) or a virtual hard disk (.vhd or .vhdx).
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I looked up "dism.exe"  and that does not sound like a good idea.

Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a command-line tool that can be used to service and prepare Windows images, including those used for Windows PE, Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Windows Setup. DISM can be used to service a Windows image (.wim) or a virtual hard disk (.vhd or .vhdx).

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Thanks. &nbsp;Everything seems healthy.
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Thanks for the update and I was happy to help
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Thanks for the update and I was happy to help

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Our Windows 2012 R2 Virtual server that is set up as a PrintServer has been completely losing printers. &nbsp;e.g. printers that were in the printers are now gone. &nbsp;<br />
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The server is a Hyper-V<br />
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In my 20 years I have never seen this happen.<br />
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Any help will be appreciated.
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Our Windows 2012 R2 Virtual server that is set up as a PrintServer has been completely losing printers.  e.g. printers that were in the printers are now gone.  

The server is a Hyper-V

In my 20 years I have never seen this happen.

Any help will be appreciated.

Printers are getting deleted from a Windows 2012 R2 print 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

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.