Windows Update Print Nightmare Definitive solution - Network/label printer issues due to Windows Updates.
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To solve the issue just follow next simple steps:
• have your PC´s fully updated
• open credential manager on the host PC (which will be connecting to the print server PC)
• install the Windows credentials of the print server PC (user/pw)
• install the shared printer
I have tested this several times and it´s working like a charm. (I don´t know why we didn´t think on this before).Hope it helps.
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@mc_bol and what will you do for the coming cumulative updates that have the update again? Just keep deferring?
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@dbeato said in Windows Update #5006670 (October Security Update) - Network printer issues again:
@mc_bol and what will you do for the coming cumulative updates that have the update again? Just keep deferring?
Agreed - what about all the other fixes in those cumulative updates?
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@dbeato Sadly by now, is the only real secure option so far, I hate that, but I don´t want to put on risk the system only for that. I have found some posts suggesting that changing/nullifying admin authority for printer drivers via regedit solve the issue (RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators), to change that you may follow next steps:
After installing updates released October 12, 2021 or later, you can also set RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators using a Group Policy, using the following instructions:
Open the group policy editor tool and go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Printers.
Set the Limits print driver installation to Administrators setting to "Disabled". This will set the registry value of RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators to 0. -
Definitive solution was updated on the initial discussion.
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Good old break everything windows updates.
