Installing printer driver for Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)
Installing printers for RDP is seldom straight forward, but when it comes to HP super-user-friendly driver installs it’s super interesting.
The only driver available for this one printer I was going to install for a client (HP p1102) was a user friendly and very good looking installation wizard which required the printer to be plugged in. I’m not about to borrow the printer, get it to the datacenter and plug it in..
When you run the installer, the actual printer driver is extracted to a temporary directory. I noticed this using procmon. For this HP driver, the path was: “C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Temp\<RandomName>”. The installer will prompt you to plug in the printer. When you cancel this operation, the temp directory containing the drivers is deleted.
Here’s what you need to do:
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