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Default Printer in WVD
Did anybody get to the bottom of this issue. We are facing the same issue default printer seems to change everytime a user logs in. It seems this is be caused by a delay in network printers appering so the default is set to a locally installed printer or Virtual printer.
I had this issue a few months ago, where printers deployed through Group Policy only appeared several seconds after users logged on, meaning their default printer would be change. Not that it probably helps, but the only way I could resolve it was to deploy the printers locally on the hosts (which is rubbish, but a least it worked).
The printers strangely also never showed when going into Devices and Printers in Control Panel, yet were all visiible when going to File > Print within an application! Is that something you're experiencing as well?
tilikumtim I'm having this exact issue right now for one of our clients. Adding them locally and having them redirect is such a crappy solution. Did you ever engaged MS support? Did they get back to you with any sort of real solution?
Have anyone tried the fix from the RDS enviroment:
Add the following registry key on the RD-Servers:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider
REG_DWORD: RemovePrintersAtLogoff
VALUE: 0
This will basically prevent the printers being removed each time the users log off/disconnect which will subsequently prevent the corruptions.
