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KevHal
Apr 19, 2021Iron Contributor
Windows 10 WVD pnplockdownfiles bloat
Hi, Windows 10 Multi-Session WVD machine and pnplockdownfiles bloating Dealing with an issue where the pnplockdownfiles seems to be bloating really badly with repeated printer driver installa...
fmartel
Apr 21, 2021Brass Contributor
Yes, the GPO printer map will re-install/verify the driver files each time a user try to login to a RDS server depending of the the GPO map settings, because it need to keep the settings in the user context. With a few printer and a few users it should not be an issue. But In the past I have seen large RDS envirenoment that were trying to load more than 200 printers on a 2008 R2 server and it did endup bloating the registery and it is very hard to cleanup. In these cases I would strongly suggest you to find another printing maping solution (Sometimes you need to tell the user that their printer/printdriver were not deisgned for multisession and they need to change the printer) or a third party printing solution for your environment.
- KevHalApr 21, 2021Iron ContributorThanks for your answer, majority are HP and one Ricoh, will see if we can switch to Universal Drivers.