Log directory pruning retry events
Specifies whether or not to log events when the pruning service on a domain controller attempts to contact a computer before pruning the computer’s printers. The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers to verify that the printers are still available for use. If a computer does not respond to the contact attempt the attempt is retried a specified number of times at a specified interval. The “Directory pruning retry” setting determines the number of times the attempt is retried; the default value is two retries. The “Directory Pruning Interval” setting determines the time interval between retries; the default value is every eight hours. If the computer has not responded by the last contact attempt its printers are pruned from the directory. If you enable this policy setting the contact events are recorded in the event log. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the contact events are not recorded in the event log. Note: This setting does not affect the logging of pruning events; the actual pruning of a printer is always logged. Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.
Directory pruning retry
Specifies how many times the pruning service on a domain controller repeats its attempt to contact a computer before pruning the computer’s printers. The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers to verify that the printers are still available for use. If a computer does not respond to the contact message the message is repeated for the specified number of times. If the computer still fails to respond then the pruning service “prunes” (deletes from Active Directory) printer objects the computer has published. By default the pruning service contacts computers every eight hours and allows two retries before deleting printers from Active Directory. You can use this setting to change the number of retries. If you enable this setting you can change the interval between attempts. If you do not configure or disable this setting the default values are used. Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.
Directory pruning priority
Sets the priority of the pruning thread. The pruning thread which runs only on domain controllers deletes printer objects from Active Directory if the printer that published the object does not respond to contact attempts. This process keeps printer information in Active Directory current. The thread priority influences the order in which the thread receives processor time and determines how likely it is to be preempted by higher priority threads. By default the pruning thread runs at normal priority. However you can adjust the priority to improve the performance of this service. Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.
Directory pruning interval
Specifies how often the pruning service on a domain controller contacts computers to verify that their printers are operational. The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers. If a computer does not respond to the contact message (optionally after repeated attempts) the pruning service “prunes” (deletes from Active Directory) printer objects the computer has published. By default the pruning service contacts computers every eight hours and allows two repeated contact attempts before deleting printers from Active Directory. If you enable this setting you can change the interval between contact attempts. If you do not configure or disable this setting the default values will be used. Note: This setting is used only on domain controllers.
Prune printers that are not automatically republished
Determines whether the pruning service on a domain controller prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished whenever the host computer does not respondjust as it does with Windows 2000 printers. This setting applies to printers running operating systems other than Windows 2000 and to Windows 2000 printers published outside their forest. The Windows pruning service prunes printer objects from Active Directory when the computer that published them does not respond to contact requests. Computers running Windows 2000 Professional detect and republish deleted printer objects when they rejoin the network. However because non-Windows 2000 computers and computers in other domains cannot republish printers in Active Directory automatically by default the system never prunes their printer objects. You can enable this setting to change the default behavior. To use this setting select one of the following options from the “Prune non-republishing printers” box: — “Never” specifies that printer objects that are not automatically republished are never pruned. “Never” is the default. — “Only if Print Server is found” prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished only when the print server responds but the printer is unavailable. — “Whenever printer is not found” prunes printer objects that are not automatically republished whenever the host computer does not respond just as it does with Windows 2000 printers. Note: This setting applies to printers published by using Active Directory Users and Computers or Pubprn. vbs. It does not apply to printers published by using Printers in Control Panel. Tip: If you disable automatic pruning remember to delete printer objects manually whenever you remove a printer or print server.
Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory
Determines whether the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes the computer’s shared printers in Active Directory. If you enable this setting or do not configure it the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes all shared printers. If you disable this setting the Add Printer Wizard does not automatically publish printers. However you can publish shared printers manually. The default behavior is to automatically publish shared printers in Active Directory. Note: This setting is ignored if the “Allow printers to be published” setting is disabled.
Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections
This policy controls whether the print spooler will accept client connections. When the policy is unconfigured or enabled the spooler will always accept client connections. When the policy is disabled the spooler will not accept client connections nor allow users to share printers. All printers currently shared will continue to be shared. The spooler must be restarted for changes to this policy to take effect.
Change Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) default output format to the legacy Microsoft XPS format (*.xps)
Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) generates OpenXPS (*. oxps) files by default in Windows 8. 1 Windows RT 8. 1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. If you enable this group policy setting the default MXDW output format is the legacy Microsoft XPS (*. xps). If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the default MXDW output format is OpenXPS (*. oxps).
Do not allow v4 printer drivers to show printer extensions
This policy determines if v4 printer drivers are allowed to run printer extensions. V4 printer drivers may include an optional customized user interface known as a printer extension. These extensions may provide access to more device features but this may not be appropriate for all enterprises. If you enable this policy setting then all printer extensions will not be allowed to run. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it then all printer extensions that have been installed will be allowed to run.
Extend Point and Print connection to search Windows Update
This policy setting allows you to manage where client computers search for Point and Printer drivers. If you enable this policy setting the client computer will continue to search for compatible Point and Print drivers from Windows Update after it fails to find the compatible driver from the local driver store and the server driver cache. If you disable this policy setting the client computer will only search the local driver store and server driver cache for compatible Point and Print drivers. If it is unable to find a compatible driver then the Point and Print connection will fail. This policy setting is not configured by default and the behavior depends on the version of Windows that you are using. By default Windows Ultimate Professional and Home SKUs will continue to search for compatible Point and Print drivers from Windows Update if needed. However you must explicitly enable this policy setting for other versions of Windows (for example Windows Enterprise and all versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and later) to have the same behavior.