sentle blog: May 2014

Friday, May 30, 2014

Network printer won't print even though it is online

If a network printer won't print even though it is online. A driver may have become corrupted. Try the following steps to resolve:

Run printui.exe /s /t2
Highlight unnecessary/old printers and click Remove
Select Remove driver and driver package and click OK
Repeat above steps and perform the same for the network printer having issue
Stop Print Spooler and repeat above step for network printer
Open Registry (regedit) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Drivers\Version-3
Highlight network printer and press delete entry
Start Print Spooler
Re-install network printer driver

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How to remove/delete old updates on WSUS server

This How-To is designed to show you how to most effectively clean your WSUS server of old, depreciated or superceded updates. This how-to assumes that you have already selected the correct update classifications, products, and languages for your environment. If you still need to do that, see this How-To here: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2572

1.	Open the Windows Update Services MMC
2.	Select the All Updates View Set the display to show the Approval status of 'Any except Declined' with a Status of 'Any'. Click Refresh.
3.	Display the Supercedence Column Right-click the column headers and select Supercedence.
4.	Sort by Supercedence Left-click on the Supercedece Column.
5.	Select and Decline the Superceded Updates The updates to be declined have one of two particular flowchart symbols for their updates pictured in the attached image. Select the correct updates and Decline them by either right-clicking the selected updates and clicking decline or by pressing the decline button in the action pane.
6.	Run the Server Cleanup Wizard Make sure you have all options selected in the wizard and let it run. It will delete the files from the declined updates.
7.	OPTIONAL: Automatic Approval Options In the automatic approval options, under the advanced tab, there is an option to automatically approve update revisions for previously approved updates and subsequentially decline the now expired updates. I suggest you select them.