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Printer Device Settings in Terminal Services session

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When I connect to a terminal services session, my printers from my local machine map across as normal. However, certain device settings from my local setup (such as available trays), do not show correctly.

I've seen this article from MS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;243942 which seems to highlight the problem.

Unfortunately, thier workaround is not useful, as we have over 100 (non power) users about to use the terminal server, and we don't want to go to every single machine, log on with elevated permissions and update all printers just to make the settings stick!

Any one seen this before or can offer any help?

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by hayesish

Any luck with a solution?

What I tried to do was monitor the registry to see what was changed when I ticked the appropriate options in DEVICE SETTINGS to match my printer. e.g. HKCU/software/printers etc etc. Problem is that the redirected printer created in each session has the number of the session in its name in registry...and of course that number could change for your next session, so I cant reference the same registry key (was going to run a .REG file on every terminal server logon)

by farq

The MS article you refer to suggests changing the print settings from within the printers folder on your server, this would save the hassle of going to each machine.

by networkdesign

I had fought this for several days and found no support on the web. This is what I found on our terminal printer sessions. It appears to have solved the issue.
Log on as Administrator to terminal or to the server locally.
Got to Printers
Right click on session and select properties.
go to security tab.
select advanced. Add and Remove should be grayed out but advanced is a live button.
In advanced go to ownership and add print operators...assuming your users have been added to the print operators group
apply and ok
Again right click on session go to properties. Now you should have in the securities tab the ability to set options per user
make sure Manage printers is set to allow
click apply and ok
Right click again, properties...now all the features should be allowed to manage for all the printer features
Our issue was a Multifunction Xerox with Auditron set. We need to manage that in their session to make the printer work from the terminal environment but with it grayed out we we're hung up..
After this we are now a functioning

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