Tag: Computer Configuration
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.
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.
Override print driver execution compatibility setting reported by print driver
This policy setting determines whether the print spooler will override the Driver Isolation compatibility reported by the print driver. This enables executing print drivers in an isolated process even if the driver does not report compatibility. If you enable this policy setting the print spooler isolates all print drivers that do not explicitly opt out of Driver Isolation. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the print spooler uses the Driver Isolation compatibility flag value reported by the print driver. Notes:-Other system or driver policy settings may alter the process in which a print driver is executed. -This policy setting applies only to print drivers loaded by the print spooler. Print drivers loaded by applications are not affected. -This policy setting takes effect without restarting the print spooler service.
Execute print drivers in isolated processes
This policy setting determines whether the print spooler will execute print drivers in an isolated or separate process. When print drivers are loaded in an isolated process (or isolated processes) a print driver failure will not cause the print spooler service to fail. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting the print spooler will execute print drivers in an isolated process by default. If you disable this policy setting the print spooler will execute print drivers in the print spooler process. Notes:-Other system or driver policy settings may alter the process in which a print driver is executed. -This policy setting applies only to print drivers loaded by the print spooler. Print drivers loaded by applications are not affected. -This policy setting takes effect without restarting the print spooler service.