Printers Stop Auto-creating for Users With More Than 20 Printers in XenApp 6.0 or 6.5
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Description
Printers stop auto-creating for users with more than 20 printers in XenApp 6.0 or 6.5.
Printers are auto-creating for most users, however for users with more than 20 printers it does not auto-create all printers available, it stops after 20 printers.
On the 2008 Terminal Server/XenApp server the following event id 1124 is displayed:
Product: Windows Operating System Event ID: 1124 Source: Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Printers Version: 6.0 Symbolic Name: EVENT_NOTIFY_SPOOLER_MAX_PRINTERS_REACHED Message: The number of printers per session limit was reached. The following print queue was not created: Printer = %1 Port = %2
Environment
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Resolution
To resolve this issue, create or modify the MaxPrintersPerSession Windows registry key.
Refer to Microsoft Article for information on the issue and its resolution.Problem Cause
The default printers per session for a user in windows 2008 by default is 20, if a user needs more printers, then create the registry key following Microsoft Article.
Issue/Introduction
This article provides resolution when printers stop auto-creating for users with more than 20 printers in XenApp 6.0 or 6.5.
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