WVD - printer name redirect

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WVD - printer name redirect

Ted 117

Hello,

We are running WVD in test environment for specific devices that have a personal attached printer. The session do see correctly the printer redirected but the application needs the printer name to be the same for all session.
At the moment every time we log in, the printer gets its name with "redirect" and the session number. I know it's a default behavior. The problem is coming from the legacy application that is looking for the exact name set in his properties. Of course it is not easy to change that property every time a user log in.

In others VDI system we found a workaround by using Powershell cmdlet "rename-printer" at logon but we get an Access Denied on WVD session using that cmdlet.

Is there a way to change the name on WVD sessions ?

Thanks in advance,
Teddy

whoward-msft 2,771 Reputation points

2020-10-14T18:58:14.6+00:00

Hi Teddy, just a clarifying question. You tried running Rename-Printer on the WVD session as admin and still received an Access Denied error? I'm just verifying you ran that command from an elevated prompt. Thanks!
Ted 117 Reputation points

2020-10-15T06:48:32.9+00:00

Hello !

Yes I ran it using admin session: I'm login with a Domain Admin, group member of local administrator, and in a Powershell with Administrator

Thank you,
Teddy
whoward-msft 2,771 Reputation points

2020-10-16T20:32:25.147+00:00

Hi Teddy,

Thanks for your patience. I went ahead and spoke with a dev on the team directly responsible for the printer redirection. He advised me that renaming the redirected printer in the remote session is not supported and something he would strongly advise against doing it. I proposed finding a pattern of some kind where your legacy app could get the correct redirected printer name but because the session ID varies you will never be able to get an exact match. Getting rid of the session ID in the redirected printer name is also non-trivial. The only solution we came to is if you control the app you could ignore the tail end of the name in brackets but please note that the text in brackets is localized.

Thanks for giving me the time to dig into this. Please mark this answer as accepted so if another person is interested in doing the same thing with WVD they understand the internal guidance.

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whoward-msft 2,771 Reputation points

2020-10-14T18:58:14.6+00:00

Hi Teddy, just a clarifying question. You tried running Rename-Printer on the WVD session as admin and still received an Access Denied error? I'm just verifying you ran that command from an elevated prompt. Thanks!
Ted 117 Reputation points

2020-10-15T06:48:32.9+00:00

Hello !

Yes I ran it using admin session: I'm login with a Domain Admin, group member of local administrator, and in a Powershell with Administrator

Thank you,
Teddy
whoward-msft 2,771 Reputation points

2020-10-16T20:32:25.147+00:00

Hi Teddy,

Thanks for your patience. I went ahead and spoke with a dev on the team directly responsible for the printer redirection. He advised me that renaming the redirected printer in the remote session is not supported and something he would strongly advise against doing it. I proposed finding a pattern of some kind where your legacy app could get the correct redirected printer name but because the session ID varies you will never be able to get an exact match. Getting rid of the session ID in the redirected printer name is also non-trivial. The only solution we came to is if you control the app you could ignore the tail end of the name in brackets but please note that the text in brackets is localized.

Thanks for giving me the time to dig into this. Please mark this answer as accepted so if another person is interested in doing the same thing with WVD they understand the internal guidance.

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Zach 1

You can rename redirected printers with this https://github.com/zniezelski/Printerceptor/releases
https://youtu.be/4_Zl_2OF_d4

It won't rename a printer using the easy print driver. The printer vendor's driver will need to be used with the redirected printer for this to work.

Zach

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