“Windows presentation foundation terminal server print w” error

2011.07.27

On Windows Server 2008 Standard Terminal Services (or as they call it -Remote Desktop Services)(both x32 & x64) some major error that caused printing problems:

“Windows presentation foundation terminal server print w”

Windows pop-up on WinXP clients, on Vista\Win7 no error at all, just – not printing. Well? What to do?

1.there is KB from MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2021394

Checked – Not helped.

2. there are workarounds with replacing TsWpfWrp.exe on clients with server version

Checked – Not helped.

3. then – forums recommend reinstall server :-)

Almost done, but not :)

So, solution that worked for my few servers, was partially mentioned by Jeff Pitsch in his post about EasyPrint. So, as in all previous versions of Windows – just to reinstall EasyPrint driver.. Yeah?

Guess what – no Printer Drivers console by defaults (Server Properties in older versions ) so from where to delete? Aha! :) Server Manager – Add Roles – Printer … Role – Next – Ok.

Now You have Printer Servers – Server Name – Drivers

Here You actually can manage installed printer drivers. :) Remove EasyPrint drivers and XPS drivers. Reboot. Check that drivers reappeared in list. Check You can print successfully.

Have a great day!

 

 

one comment

  1. Thank you for this post. i found it very helpful. Also there is another post i found is good as well and had comment from many people saying it helped.

    Arpan, 15/03/2012

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