Alright after calling upon the almighty Google I have been unable to find a good solutions to this problem along with many other users. So I am turning to Spiceworks for some support here.
I am in the process of moving my users off of Desktop Authority(DA) and on Group Policy(GP) completely. A week ago we moved our printer policy from DA to GP. Everything was going swimmingly until some of my users started complaining that their default printer was not being configure. Specifically my user on our XenApp servers (Which run Microsoft Terminal Services). I am using item level targeting to choose which printers are assigned to users.
When delete the users printers and run gpupdate /force everything applies correctly, but when I have all of the printers connected already and change my default printer then run gpupdate /force, nothing happens.
Looking at the results of gpresults /h provides me with this error.
>Result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070bc4)
And looking in my logs presents this error.
>The user ‘HP600_PA — Default’ preference item in the ‘Printers {C125938A-E046-46CE-9908-F0ADDAB9B9C8}’ Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code ‘0x80070bc4 No printers were found.’ This error was suppressed.
Google has provided a bunch of different solutions, most of which don’t work except things like «Well remove all printers when a user logs off» which isn’t really acceptable because we have settings that users set on their printers that I don’t want being removed every time they log off.
I have seen this issues discussed since 2012 and have yet to see a proper fix for it.
Alright. After calling upon the almighty Google I have been unable to find a good solutions to this problem along with many other users. So I am turning to Server Fault for some support here.
I am in the process of moving my users off of Quest’s Desktop Authority (DA) and on to Microsoft’s Group Policy (GP) completely. A week ago we moved our printer policy from DA to GP. Everything was going swimmingly until some of my users started complaining that their default printer was not being configured. Specifically my users on our XenApp servers (Which run Microsoft Terminal Services). I am using item level targeting to choose which printers are assigned to users.
When delete the users printers and run gpupdate /force everything applies correctly, but when I have all of the printers connected already, then change my default printer, then run gpupdate /force, nothing happens.
Looking at the results of gpresults /h provides me with this error.
Result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070bc4)
And looking in my logs presents this error:
The user 'HP600_PA - Default' preference item in the 'Printers {C125938A-E046-46CE-9908-F0ADDAB9B9C8}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bc4 No printers were found.' This error was suppressed.
Google has provided a bunch of different solutions, most of which don’t work except things like «Well, just remove all printers when a user logs off!» which isn’t really acceptable because we have settings that users set on their printers that I don’t want being removed every time they log off.
I have seen this issues discussed since 2012 and have yet to see a proper fix for it.
Links
- Crosspost on SpiceWorks
- Post on TechNet where the answer is basically: delete every printer at logoff.
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Hello,
in domain Windows 2008 R2 I have three RDS servers ( also Windows 2008 R2, patched ).
Suddenly on one of these servers Printers which are mapped through Group Policy Preferences disappeared.
Other servers are still OK.When I’ve made Group Policy Results Wizard then I’ve seen error: 0x80070bc4GPUPDATE /FORCE doesn’t help.
I’ve enabled logging according to:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2015/04/17/a-treatise-on-group-policy-troubleshootingnow-with-gpsvc-log-analysis/
but I haven’t seen any errors in gpsvc.log
What does this error mean ?
How could I solve my problem ?
best regards Janusz Such
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Вопрос
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Hello,
in domain Windows 2008 R2 I have three RDS servers ( also Windows 2008 R2, patched ).
Suddenly on one of these servers Printers which are mapped through Group Policy Preferences disappeared.
Other servers are still OK.When I’ve made Group Policy Results Wizard then I’ve seen error: 0x80070bc4GPUPDATE /FORCE doesn’t help.
I’ve enabled logging according to:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2015/04/17/a-treatise-on-group-policy-troubleshootingnow-with-gpsvc-log-analysis/
but I haven’t seen any errors in gpsvc.log
What does this error mean ?
How could I solve my problem ?
best regards Janusz Such
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Value: -2147021884 | 0x80070BC4 | 2147945412
What does it mean ?
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ERROR_PRINTER_NOT_FOUND
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- No printers were found.
- Value: 3012 | 0x0BC4 | 0b0000101111000100
Where does it come from ?
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FACILITY_WIN32
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- Provides a way to handle error codes from functions in the Win32 API as an HRESULT. (Error codes in 16 — bit OLE that duplicated Win32 error codes have also been changed to FACILITY_WIN32)
- Value: 7 | 0x007 | 0b00000111