Terminal Server Printer Redirect Tool

Hey system admins for Terminal Server -

Ever have one of those days where users are trying to use TS but can’t get their legacy printer mapped at login? And all of the hell for loading a driver manually and configuring the *.inf file by hand?

Well! Microsoft has been so kind as to provide a new mapping utility! That I found on the web today! And it’s okay – in a manual resolution kinda way – to solve these kinds of problems using a program to automate the *.inf changes. Here’s the URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9AD27BE9-40DB-484F-862E-38A094EEEAF7&displaylang=en

So I ended up using this with a client to handle the mapping of an HP Deskjet to a generic Deskjet driver in Windows 2003 Server. Worked great! Good litle tool for the road…

R