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DBR14's avatar
DBR14
Iron Contributor
Oct 12, 2021

Print Spooler on AVD hosts doesn't start when booted up

This just came about today, any host that was turned on via Nerdio the print spooler was off. All these hosts were provisioned on Oct. 7 and haven't had this issue until today.

 

Azure issue? AVD issue? We've changed nothing configuration wise that would cause this, no new patches either.

 

These are 16vCPU boxes, with 64GB of RAM, again only happened today and we've been running this image since Oct 7th without issue and AVD since July in prod. Print Nightmare patches are installed.

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  • Jamony's avatar
    Jamony
    MCT
    Jul 01, 2026

    Hi, I’d check whether the Print Spooler service is set to Automatic or Automatic Delayed Start, then look at the System event log around boot time for service dependency or driver errors. On AVD hosts, printer drivers and redirection components can sometimes cause the spooler to fail during startup. A practical workaround is to set the service to Automatic Delayed Start and remove any problematic third-party print drivers from the image. If you use FSLogix or printer redirection, I’d also test with a clean host image to separate image issues from user profile issues.