I recently created new Windows 11 session hosts for our clients. Many are complaining that their default printer keeps getting reset to Adobe PDF. This was never a problem on Windows 10. Printers are installed and shared on a Domain controller/File server and mapped via group policy. I have another group policy set that enables the setting ‘Do not set default client printer to be default printer in a session'.
Windows 11 Session Hosts - Default printer not sticking
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We are seeing the same for a couple of customers, but have been unable to determine the root cause.
For one of our small clients, I updated their printer GPO. I am mapping printers and using item level targeting to set defaults. It's only been a day or two, but it seems to be working. This is going to be tougher to mange for larger clients though.
For one of our clients with AVD, I've done a lot of scripting to handle the printers because of the mix of local redirected printers and server shared printers that GPO settings couldn't really handle, as it would have been choosing to go with one or the other.
The parts of that include:
- A file in user profile root that saves default printer per source client.
- A logon script that reads default printer file and attempts to set default as it was set previously
- A scheduled task that runs a slightly modified version of the logon script to set default printer after reconnect.
- A logoff script that saves the current default printer to the above file.
I just came across this while looking for something else, so will plan to come back with the actual scripts.
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