Administrator cannot see ALL redirected printers

[Richard Gantz]

Dear all TS-Administrators,

we use a "Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise" as a "Terminalserver" and we
read that a new feature was that the redirected printers of all other
sessions are not shown even as administrator.

There is an article
http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-services-easy-print-part-3.aspx
that tells how to enable the viewing of all redirected printers as
administrator and i followed it completely:

Added the "Print Server" Role.
Added Administrator (both, the lokal WTS-Account and the Administrator of
the Domain, the WTS is a member of) to the "Print Operators" group (both,
too, to the Domains built-in “Print Operators” group and to the WTS lokal
“Print Operators” group).

But inner the printer management console there are only the redirected
printers of the own session visible.

What else do we need to manage ALL redirected printers?

TIA,
Richard

[Priya [MSFT]]

Hi,

Yes, the steps mentioned by you are fine. After adding the user account to
the "Print Operators" role, and before viewing printers in the Print
Management Console, did you connect a remote session to the server using that
user account? Or did you log on locally in the server with that user account?

Thanks,
Priya.

Post by Richard Gantz
Dear all TS-Administrators,
we use a "Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise" as a "Terminalserver" and we
read that a new feature was that the redirected printers of all other
sessions are not shown even as administrator.
There is an article
http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-services-easy-print-part-3.aspx
that tells how to enable the viewing of all redirected printers as
Added the "Print Server" Role.
Added Administrator (both, the lokal WTS-Account and the Administrator of
the Domain, the WTS is a member of) to the "Print Operators" group (both,
too, to the Domains built-in “Print Operators” group and to the WTS lokal
“Print Operators” group).
But inner the printer management console there are only the redirected
printers of the own session visible.
What else do we need to manage ALL redirected printers?
TIA,
Richard

[Richard Gantz]

Thank you very much for your interest,

i connected a remote session with the "/admin" switch.

But after your question i tired a non-console-session and there all printers
are visible.

THANK YOU.

BTW, do you know how to take ownership of a printer with "subinacl"???

Thank you once more for your help.

Richard

Post by Priya [MSFT]
Hi,
Yes, the steps mentioned by you are fine. After adding the user account to
the "Print Operators" role, and before viewing printers in the Print
Management Console, did you connect a remote session to the server using that
user account? Or did you log on locally in the server with that user account?
Thanks,
Priya.

Post by Richard Gantz
Dear all TS-Administrators,
we use a "Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise" as a "Terminalserver" and we
read that a new feature was that the redirected printers of all other
sessions are not shown even as administrator.
There is an article
http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-services-easy-print-part-3.aspx
that tells how to enable the viewing of all redirected printers as
Added the "Print Server" Role.
Added Administrator (both, the lokal WTS-Account and the Administrator of
the Domain, the WTS is a member of) to the "Print Operators" group (both,
too, to the Domains built-in “Print Operators” group and to the WTS lokal
“Print Operators” group).
But inner the printer management console there are only the redirected
printers of the own session visible.
What else do we need to manage ALL redirected printers?
TIA,
Richard