Allow pruning of published printers

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows2000, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

Determines whether the domain controller can prune (delete from Active Directory) the printers published by this computer. By default, the pruning service on the domain controller prunes printer objects from Active Directory if the computer that published them does not respond to contact requests. When the computer that published the printers restarts, it republishes any deleted printer objects. If you enable this setting or do not configure it, the domain controller prunes this computer's printers when the computer does not respond. If you disable this setting, the domain controller does not prune this computer's printers. This setting is designed to prevent printers from being pruned when the computer is temporarily disconnected from the network. Note: You can use the "Directory Pruning Interval" and "Directory Pruning Retry" settings to adjust the contact interval and number of contact attempts.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

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  Activate Internet printing

  Windows 2000 only
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  Add Printer wizard - Network scan page (Managed network)

  At least Windows Vista
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  Add Printer wizard - Network scan page (Unmanaged network)

  At least Windows Vista
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  Allow job name in event logs

  At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
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  Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections

  At least Windows Server 2003
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  Allow printers to be published

  At least Windows 2000
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  Always rasterize content to be printed using a software rasterizer

  At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
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  Always render print jobs on the server

  At least Windows Vista
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  Always send job page count information for IPP printers

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
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  Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory

  Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only
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  Change Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) default output format to the legacy Microsoft XPS format (*.xps)

  At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
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  Check published state

  At least Windows 2000