Re: Looking for tips to stabilize my print server

Since you have R2, have you configured the machine with the print server
role?

That's not going to help with the stability, but you will get the Print
Management Console added where you can check some of the driver versions.

Do you publish the printers into an Active Directory?

Make sure you have the latest driver for the HP 9050.
Microsoft is currently using version 61.71.698.21 which fixed a failure when
publishing the printer to the AD.

Are there any event 6161s around the time the service terminates. Most
failures in the spooler are caused by print drivers corrupting memory within
the process.

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"Bruce Lautenschlager" <brucel.spamless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That's a good thought - if I had it to do over again, I'd install VMWare
ESXi 3.5 on the blade and split it up into at least two...

But it reality, that won't help me entirely, either. Of the 287 printers,
probably 50-75 get a lot of printing, from our surgical suite package (we
are a hospital). It comes from a print server" (one of 9 Window Server
2003 boxes) belonging to the surgical suite package. If it tries to print
to any printer that isn't immediately available, it seems to send that
package into a tizzy, and we start having to dork with it.

It's crappy, and it's wrong, but it's also not great that my print
server's spooler service hoses once a week or so lately, either.

Every other app in the hospital could care less for the most part - it
prints when it's available, queues up when it's not, and spits it out when
it's ready. Just like God intended printing to work.

This surgical package is a lot like some of my old AIX stuff, though, in
that if the server doesn't say "I got it! I printed it!", bad stuff starts
happening (in the case of AIX, it'll mark the print queue as unavailable
until you turn it on....).




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