Print drivers in Terminal Services can be a chore especially with printers not auto-creating, incompatible print drivers, etc... With the instructions below you can map print drivers on the Server. There are 2 main benefits to this. One, you can limit the drivers installed on your Terminal Server thereby reducing issues. Two, you can enable printers that might not have worked natively to use another print driver without the client having to change anything.
Applicable Products
Microsoft 2003 Server
Microsoft 2008, 2008 R2 Server
How to Configure Printer Mapping
Open REGEDIT and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd
Create a new REG_SZ value named PrinterMappingINFName
Set the value data to the name of the .inf file that contains the print driver mappings
Create a new REG_SZ value named PrinterMappingINFSection
Set the value data to the section name within the INF file that contains the mappings
Create the INF file as specified above. The contents of the INF file should look like the following:
7. Restart the spooler service
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