WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

re: WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

Rick — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:19:29 GMT

CC Hameed,

Great post, provides a lot of detail most of us engineers need on the order of operations, locations and the tools. Thank you.

I am currently impacted by an odd issue with a print driver install, where using the printui.dll or the Print Management.msc has worked on 40 plus servers Windows 2008 Server and I now have a single Windows 2008 Server presenting the following errors for the same driver inf and set of files used with no issue on the other 40 -

0x00000BC6 ERROR_PRINTER_DRIVER_BLOCKED

The printer driver is known to harm the system.

0x00000578 ERROR_INVALID_WINDOW_HANDLE

Invalid window handle.

Has MS updated something in a hotfix that would affect the 32bit unsigned driver install process where the popup to say yes would fail now, I understand the limits with 64bit system but all of these are 32bit and this one driver is the extracted files from a 2003 Server and again works/worked great until this one box.

The only temp fix was to use a PS version just to have the one Queue created over the PCL version and no native inbox for it.

So if this is not the fourm for this sort of help, please direct me or if anyone has seen this of late with unsigned drivers for 32bit system under Windows 2008 let me know.

Thank you in advance.

Rick

re: WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

CC Hameed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:01 GMT

@Jon - It wasn't a series solely on Printing, it was a series on Windows Server 2008. Click on the link for February 2008 in the "AskPerf Archives" on the right hand side and you'll see the entire list of posts we did as part of that series.

- CC

re: WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

Jon Golberg (jpgolberg@west.com) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:13:49 GMT

This article was referred to me by a Microsoft Support Technician, and seeing as how I am responsible for most of the printing at my company, and that we are deploying more and more Server 2008 platforms, and that this was "Day Twelve" of a series, can you send to me the links to the other "days" of the series? Thanks

Jon Golberg, MCSE

Sr. Systems Administrator/West Corp

402-716-1632

jpgolberg@west.com

re: WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

shehryar — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:09:10 GMT

Can you please tell me how to turn OFF the driver update feature in windows 2008? On my TS servers when a user logs on for the first time it will try and update the driver for a printer (shared on a print server). This will cause some printers to go into a "Driver Update Needed" status instead of ready, and the user won't be able to print or the print job is delayed.

re: WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages

Jeff Gale — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:32:14 GMT

This is excellent information. Is there a similar DriverStore in Server 2003 that houses the list if inbox printer drivers? Additionally, is there a method to find and replace older inbox drivers from a 2003 server with the newer inbox drivers in a 2008 server during a server migration?

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