The Hunt For The Bad Printer Driver
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 by Michel Roth
Stefan Vermeulen has written an nice article at MSTerminalServices.org on how you can find which printer driver (if you have a printer driver problem) which is causing problems in your Terminal Server / Citrix environment.

"In this article I will go into the extensive search you need to do to find a culprit printer driver haunting your farm. This article should reduce the wild goose chase back to a 10 minute job.

In the forums and newsgroups one of the most popular pieces of advice given when a server is not stable is: “Replace all third party drivers with native drivers from OS CDrom.”

"If I had a dollar for every time I gave that advice (or heard it given) I would be driving a real nice car."....

Read the entire article here.

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