Microsoft Fixit for Printing

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Blake Morrison - MSFT — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:19:56 GMT

Thanks folks. We will investigate.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Windows AD — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:18:58 GMT

@Blake Morrison-MSFT.

Dear MS Team,

Appreciate for any information or assistance, that you can provide me to make this tool work. I have committed myself to perform an activity and just need this tool now to keep going. Meanwhile, if there are any manual workarounds to reset theprint spooler to defaults, pls share.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Tamer — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:06:49 GMT

@Blake Morrison-MSFT.

Today, I tried the full versions of the latest fixit on my Win 2008 R2 SP1 Terminalserver and it doesn't seem to be working. The tool didn't removed the drivers or ports or printers, it just says that Microsoft Fixit has been processed. Please share , if anyone has experienced the same issue.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Windows AD — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:37:10 GMT

@Blake Morrison-MSFT.

Today, I tried both lite and full versions of the latest fixit on my Win 2008 R2 SP1 server ( Powershell 2.0 , Print role not installed) and it doesn't seem to be working. I mean, the tool didn't removed the drivers or ports or printers, it just says that Microsoft Fixit has been processed. Please share , if anyone has experienced the same issue.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Ram — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:36:17 GMT

@Blake Morrison-MSFT.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Blake Morrison - MSFT — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:13:14 GMT

@gabbermorph & @Jeroen: As of right now, there is nothing on the table for this fixit for Windows 8 and/or Windows Server 2012. As always, we will update this blog if any thing new comes available. Thanks!

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Ryan Beuke — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:24:11 GMT

The KB article stats that this is not supported if you have the Print Role installed which would be installed on all print servers. I ask as i was thinking about using this as part of a clean upgrade procedure. The reason is it seems like no matter what upgrading universal print drivers from HP tends to cause issues.

1) export all queues on the print server via powershell script

2) Run this fixit to delete all queues / drivers leaving the server back at the default

3) Instal the new Print driver say HP universal xxx

4) Run a powershell script to recreate all the queues from the export in step 1

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

Jeroen Bonenberg — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:46:46 GMT

Is a tool like this also becoming available for Windows Server 2012?

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

JamesC_836 — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:22:59 GMT

@Blake Morrison - MSFT

Thanks very much for making these useful Fixits available.

re: Microsoft Fixit for Printing

gabbermorph — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:02:02 GMT

I need that Fix for Windows 8. Would be nice.

Is it possible?