Microsoft has released a stability update designed to resolve no less than three issues affecting Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print Clusters. The Redmond company detailed the problems impacting print server failover clusters running Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as the specific sources of the glitches and is offering customers a hotfix set up to return functionality to normal parameters. “We recommend that you install this update on all the print server failover cluster nodes that are running Windows Server 2008 R2 to make sure that basic functionality and that basic manageability is maintained,” Microsoft stated.
The first two issues documented by the Redmond company involve the same symptoms. Customers have a shared printer installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 print server failover cluster, with the print server ending up failing over to another node.
The first problem involves “the print processor of the related driver [having] multiple dependent files. (…) In this scenario, the shared printer may be missing on the new node after the failover operation. Only one dependent file is copied to the destination node in every failover operation. The printer is missing after the failover operation because some dependent files ar... (read more)
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