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components in a printing environment. The following is a technical definition of a printer citrix universal print driver driver, which clearly states that it plays a major role in how the print job is created, formatted, and sent to the spooler:A printer

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driver is an OS extension that helps the OS and applications, create a device ready print data stream for a specific print device. Importance of Selecting Printer Drivers to Install on XenApp Server Approximately 90% of citrix print manager service most printing issues are printer driver related. The other 10% being related to Microsoft print spooler (spoolsv.exe) or the Citrix Print Manager service (cpsvc.exe). A stable set of printer drivers are needed for a good stable printing environment, without a good base any system is likely to have challenges and fail. Stable drivers mean a stable Print Spooler which means a stable Citrix Print Manager service which equals to a healthy printing environment. Windows citrix printing to local printer Server 2003 was more difficult than Windows Server 2008 R2 to have a stable printing environment, as all it took was one bad driver to bring the printing environment to a halt. Consider the following scenario: A user with printer XYZ using driver XYZ and the driver is not signed by Microsoft. The message “driver is not signed” states that it was not tested for multi-user use for Terminal Services/ Remote Desktop or XenApp. It was tested as a one-to-one use case (one printer with one user). So the user connects the Citrix Print Manager service, makes the call to the Print Spooler service on behalf of the user to auto create the printer with driver XYZ which is already installed on the server. When the print spooler tries to execute the add printer function, and it does not work as expected, it crashes the spooler and one of the threads do not complete or hangs. All users who connect with their printers after this is stuck on this thread from the bad printer driver “XYZ” and nothing else can complete because the spooler has crashed, thus bringing the printing environment to a halt. Complete the following steps to fix the issue: Contact the manufacturer of the printer driver to verify if they are aware of the issue and obtain an updated or recommended driver. Use the Citrix Universal

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InterfaceXenAppXenClientXenDesktopXenMobileXenServer Discussions Support Forums Programs Archived Products (includes End of Life) XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003 / Presentation Server 4.5 Printing Javascript Disabled Detected You http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136332 currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Print Spooler is crashing (spoolsv.exe) ! Started by Miroslav Raso , 27 June 2012 - 01:52 PM Login to Reply 11 replies to this topic Miroslav Raso Members #1 Miroslav Raso 56 posts Posted 27 June 2012 http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/309414-print-spooler-is-crashing-spoolsvexe/ - 01:52 PM Hi,I've a problem with the print spooler (spoolsv.exe). Actually we have 30 servers and 300 users working on it. Our monitoring tool (SCOM) is reporting serveral times during the day that a print spooler of one of the TS is crashing.Normally SCOM start's the service but not always. Then the users complain that no printers are available in the citrix session.We are using the Universal Printer Driver from Citrix and no Native drivers.I don't know why the service is crashing and I would need a solution for that asap.We have Windows 2003 SP2 installed with PS 4.5.System Eventlog:ID 7034The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s).ID 1114Error communicating with the Spooler system service. Open the Services snap-in and confirm that the Print Spooler service is running.Any help is appreciated.Thanks! 1306-309414-1654560 Back to top Marek Dresler Citrix Employees #2 Marek Dresler 952 posts Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:35 P

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making sure there are no old drivers on the Terminal Server or Print Server. You can check out a separate, related post here for details. In short, the spooler service will load drivers, even if no mapped/installed printer is using them. This can cause old out of date drivers to crash/hang the spooler even if they are not being used. Again, the problem is not 100% fixed, but is much better after clearing out drivers. Solution Today the solution appears to be use HP UPD (I'm using 5.8, for the record) and recreate print queues (fancy name for shared printers) and have a nice script to handle failures elegantly. Use of the HP Universal Print Driver is pretty much mandated for use in a terminal server environment (check out the HP compatibility list here (pdf)). Most HP printers new/old do not support the use of their device specific driver in a Citrix Xen* environment. Recreating the print queues apparently helps for not-quite-adequately-explained reasons. Apparently switching which driver a print queue is using can cause some sort of corruption that can crash the spooler. So you have to delete and re-add the shared printer (you can use the same port, etc.) but starting with the UPD driver, rather than using the device-specific one and changing later. I've done this for a couple of printers and it has already drastically reduced the number of crashes, will be recreating other printers that seem to be causing problems and will update this will progress. Having a script that handles failures nicely is key to reducing user impact. Printers are always problematic, especially in a Xen/RDS environment, so expecting 0 crashes is probably over optimistic. I've written a script that runs when a service is detected to have failed (I do this through the 'recovery' tab in the service properties). The script restarts both the spooler and the Citrix Print Manager Service. For some reason, if these two are not restarted together, they don't seem to talk to each other. So whenever one fails, both need to be restarted. I'll put the script at the bottom of the article. Introduction We've had more problems with printing since fixing the issue with the Citrix Print Client. The issue now is that the print spooler on our terminal server keeps crashing and it causes people not to be able to print, printers not to map, etc