Deleting dead shared printer in active directory

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Dear All,

I've been looking for how to deleting some dead network shared printer by
user.
These dead network shared printers were local to user workstation and shared
by
domain user on that workstation, however, now they are no longer in use, but
they
are still listing onto the Active Directory.

Is there any instruction to help to delete these dead network shared
printer in AD?

Thanks for input,
JH
 
The print pruner should take care of this for you. If not there could be a
permissions issue. It doesn't happen immediately but will hapen over the
course of days. I don't recall the time frame.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246174/en-us

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246269/en-us

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Hi group,

Yes, it is there, however, user shared their local printer and list it in
the AD,
time to time, they replaced the old printer and delete the old one. The
previous
shared printer still lists itself in AD. I look for the way to delete those
old ones.

Do we have to use ADSI Edit to delete these dead shared printers?

Thanks for your reply,
JH
 
The pruner should clean up AD.

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In
Ivan said:
Thanks all of your help there. However, I want to know where I can
get the print pruner?
Click to expand...

Printer pruning is an automatic process the runs on all DCs. Since printers
are automatically published in AD (default behavior), AD keeps tabs on the
printers that have been published. If the printer is not available for more
than 24 hours (maybe due to either a power outage on a machine with a shared
printer, or one that you've manually removed), AD will prune it or remove
it. It does this to prevent orphaned printers. You can turn it off if you
like or extend the default 24 hour time period.

Print Service Product Operations Guide - Chapter 5 - Troubleshooting:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/mo/winsrvmg/pspog/pspog5.mspx.

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