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Free Autocreated Clientprinter Error Parser Script

Wednesday, 06 December 2006 by Michel Roth

Over at BrianMadden.com a script has been made available that parses event logs and compiles client printer autocreation errors: "Everyone knows that one of the challenges of Citrix Presentation Server is that autocreated client printers sometimes don't autocreate. When this happens (or doesn't happen?), the most likely cause is a printer driver mismatch between the client and the server. Whenever the Presentation Server tries but fails to autocreate an ICA client printer, it writes an event to the Application Event Log.

Robert Iutzwig has created this straightforward script that connects to your servers one-by-one and scans their application logs searching for 1103, 1104, 1106, and 1107 printer management errors. It then outputs this list of printer drivers to a text file. It also creates a second text file that lists each of the errors encountered on each server so you can see which drivers are causing the most problems."

A similar solution from Microsoft has been around for quite some time now, the Terminal Services Printer Redirection wizard. This tool will help resolve Terminal Server Printer Redirection errors by scanning the event log of a Terminal Server to create a custom mapping file for administrators.