Printer Disapear from the AD

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I publish my printer to my AD and from time to time they disapear. I have to
reclick List in Active Directory so we can search for them again.
 
Look in the event log of the domain controller for when they are getting
removed (pruned) from the AD. The Domain controller must be able to
enumerate printers on the print server. I have seen the DC delete the print
objects because the DC was disallowed access to the print server. If the DC
cannot determine the printers exist on the print server they will be removed
from AD.

Pick up the setprinter.exe tool in the Windows resource kit. You can
republish all the printers from script or cmd .

setprinter \\server 7 dwAction="publish"

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Alan Morris
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