Event ID 1123 — Terminal Services Printer Redirection

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Terminal Services provides printer redirection, which routes printing jobs from a server to a printer that is attached to a client computer or to a shared printer that is available to the client computer. When a user establishes a remote session with a terminal server, the redirected printer will be available to applications running in the remote session.

By default, a Windows Server 2008 terminal server first tries to use the Terminal Services Easy Print driver. If the client computer does not support this driver, the terminal server looks for a matching printer driver installed on the terminal server. You can either install a matching printer driver on the terminal server, or you can create a custom printer mapping file.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1123
Source: Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Printers
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: EVENT_NOTIFY_SPOOLER_ADDPRINTER_FAILED_GIVING_UP
Message: The Print Spooler failed to add the printer %1, port %2 because of a port error. The Print Spooler will not try again to add the printer.

Resolve

Disconnect and reconnect the Terminal Services session

To try to resolve this issue, the user should disconnect the Terminal Services session, and then reconnect.

Verify

To verify that printer redirection is working properly, establish a remote session with the terminal server and check that the redirected printer is available and is functioning as expected.

Terminal Services Printer Redirection

Terminal Services