AD disapearing printer

[Steven S. Whitlow]

I have installed printers in Active Directroy and they
show up no problem, but out of the blue they will
disappear and after the spooler is restarted the will
show back up. Any ideas? We have a very large AD
enterprise, have run all the laset updates and there are
no events in the event logs. In order to use them again
have to unpublish them and then re-publish. The disappear
from AD and they are not usable anymore. Happens to them
everything, and I don't care how you added. Happens to
all printers.

Thanks

 

[Tore]

Hi! I we had the same problem. You should read about Print
pruning.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/gp/71.asp

There is a policy (pruning) that by default removes
printers that the servers have lost contact with. If a
server is offline for a while it will remove remove the
printers because it can't reach them. Then when it comes
online it tells all the other servers: Hey, remove the
printers because they are not here anymore.
And the other servers just say: "Duh, ok.... ".
We have disabled this policy and now the printers don't
disappear.

Good luck!

Tore