We recently set up a new server farm, and users are having issues with their profiles not retaining their default printers. We are well aware of the issue with redirected printers, and have made appropriate GPO's to correct that issue for those users who connect from a Windows 7 client. This issue affects users who have no redirected printers whatsoever. In most cases, the users are connecting via thin clients.
What happens is, a user logs in, sets their printer. They work for the day and log off. When they log back in the next day, their default printer is now set to something different than what they set it to the previous day.
We are running a server farm with 5 RDP Servers running Server 2008 R2. Users connect through a session broker, also running server 2008 R2.
Our session broker also doubles as a print server. Printers are published through group policy to specific groups of users. Some users only have one or two printers, whereas other users may have the need to have many printers. It would be very difficult and time consuming to create policies to set default printers for each user, just to correct this inconvenience.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jamestown