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davidptaylor
Jul 26, 2023Copper Contributor
Printer Group Policy on a TSDisconnect not working correct on server 2022
We have users that roam between floors and we have one Group Policy handling the printer setup. So when the user is on Floor 1, they get printer A and B, but when they disconnect and go to Floor 2 they get printers C and D. and the default printer changes according to the floor they are on. The GP is setup so that if they are on a Floor 1 endpoint computer it gives out printer A and B. All of this is setup in one GPO and it is divided up by floors. I can simulate this problem on two computers setup at my desk lab. We used to use Server 2012 and it worked just fine. When the user would do a tsdisconnect, and connect back to their session, the printers would change per floor. I know it is the same session, because programs stay open. We went recently to Server 2022 and this stopped working. The printers from Floor 1 stayed and never changed to Floor 2 printers. So I dropped back on a test machine to Server 2016 and it works fine with that version as well. I have not tried 2019, but we had similar issues of it giving us "ghost sessions" that we couldn't kill, which is a whole other problem. It seems like since 2012 or 2016, the server family has some weird problems. I searched high and low for people with similar problems, but most people seem to "lose" their default printer, and I don't have that issue, I can't get it to change according to GPO.
Thanks for an insight on this.
- davidptaylorCopper Contributor
I found that if the June update to Server 2022 will allow it to work, but not reliably and depending on the GPO I attach to it, but the July update breaks it again.