Print Spooler errors

Question

Hi Everyone,

Long shot I know but hoping someone has seen this before!

I have an environment of clients using both windows 10 & 11 22H2, for the past week we have encountered a number of printing issues.

The clients are sending jobs to an internal printer server (server 2022 std) but on occasions they receive one of the below errors,

RPC server is unavailable

Operation could not be completed (0x000006ba)

I have checked all event logs both on the client and server with nothing coming to light on what the issues is.

a restart of the client print spooler resolves the issue temporally but it reoccurs shortly after.

I have removed all dependencies from the spooler services other than RPCSS, SFC /Scannow has located and repaired corrupt files, Deleted all print related drivers and reinstalled where required.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Hello,

The RPC Server is unavailable error is usually caused by incorrect DNS configuration, time and time zone mismatches, or network problems. But rarely, it can also be caused by the update packages installed on the client computer. (e.g. KB5007186) I suggest you check it out.