2019 RD Farm with FSLOGIX Profiles Printer Issues

Question

2 Session hosts
Third server, the file & print server is the broker/gateway.

We reboot these servers each night to clear up fslogix profiles etc due to them not clearing out properly all the time. No issues with that.

The problem we have, however, is that after a full days work when the servers are rebooted, when users login to the server, no printers will enumerate and you cannot connect to any new ones.

Opening devices & printers in control panel just locks up explorer.exe and you cannot do anything to do with printers.
Restarting the spooler service will make control panel respond again but as soon as you right click any printers or anything, it will stall again.

The fix that I have found is to run a scheduled task on system boot that does the following

net stop spooler
Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\*" –Recurse
net start spooler

The problem then goes away and everything works fine.

I guess I'm okay with this being a permanent solution but I'd rather it not be. Any ideas?

Other stuff I've tried:

• The usual sfc /scannow and dism cleanups
• Updated every printer driver to the latest version on the print server and reinstalled the new drivers on each RD Session Host

Answer 1

Same Issue. How did you fix the problem?