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Save Default Network Printer in User Profile and enable GPP for Client Printers
Migrating to WVD on Windows 10: We need to save the default Network Printer to the User's Profile. In addition, we need to allow Remote Users to use their Client Printers as Default. I can use ...
howdy!.. did you ever find the solution for this? I just found this thread.... It's been plaguing me something awful :double_exclamation_mark:. My client's overview is... WVD host-pools using GP to control printer policies for multiple network printers in a single tenant. Any newfound insight would be hugely appreciated!
- johnrjr
I have not found a way around this. We currently ask our Users to select the printer in the list or open Printers pub app in Remote Desktop and set the default printer before opening other apps. It's a pain either way, but I have not had time to dig further into this issue.- Late to the party, I've run into the same problem.
The closest I've got to resolving the problem is pushing a GPO that says "do not set default client printer to be default in a session"
We also joined that with another GPO that essentially forces the computer to always let Windows manage their printer.
It's worked fairly well, I'd say about 6070% success rate. Some users it still fails to retain their preferred printers.- I have the following settings that seem to work on a Desktop but not Applications.
Plus Users are seeing Ghost Printers. I remember years ago Azure VM's would have Ghost NICS, but this is the first time I have run into Ghost Printers. I'm going to open a ticket with Microsoft.
GPO
Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrations Templates/Windows Components/Remote Desktop Services/Remote Desktop Session Host/Printer Redirection
"Do not set default client printer to be default printer in a session"
Enabled
and
GPP:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Value name LegacyDefaultPrinterMode
Value type REG_DWORD
Value data 0x0 (0)
