Printer Policy issue

[AndyE45]

PS4 with RO3, Win2k3 with latest MS patches.

We're seeing a weird issue that started about 2 weeks ago in which printer policies don't seem to be applying correctly. It doesn't seem to be specific to any server.

A user may not have any session printers at all or they may get the wrong ones. It seems to be totally random.

Anybody else seen this?

 

[twoody54]

We used to have a lot of problems with this before only using windows native drivers for everything... It's been pretty good about it ever since.

 

[AndyE45]

twoody54,

We use either Windows or manufacturer's digitally signed drivers only. This hasn't changed for some time which is not to say we haven't had any driver issues but I don't think this is the cause of our problem.

I think this may actually have to do with corruption in the database that stores the policies. I suspect we may have to remove the print servers, re-add them then re-enter the printers in all the policies which is a very difficult since we have almost 450 policies. I'm just hoping somebody has seen this before and has a simpler solution.

Thanks for the input.