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Disabling it on Domain Controllers will stop automatic pruning of stale printers published to the directory, so be prepared to do this manually or via script if necessary.There are plenty of reasons why you shouldn’t download CCleaner anymore. The Print Spooler service should ideally be disabled on all servers that do not require it. See the above newly added section for further details.ĭisable the Print Spooler service on Domain Controllers/Member Servers Configure this to the same trusted server(s) as the standard Point and Print trusted server(s).

This is similar to the standard Point and Print setting, but for “packaged” drivers.

“Package Point and print – Approved Servers”.

Ideally, inbound File/Print sharing firewall rules are blocked/disabled/restricted on endpoints but if not, this is an easy stopgap until endpoint firewall rules are better configured.

This should be set to Disabled on all endpoints that are not print servers, to ensure that clients cannot connect to printers shared from them.

“Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections”.

Utilize the PrintBrm utility to backup your print server configurations, and to move to a new operating system if necessary.Īdditional settings under “Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers”.

Ensure the servers are as up to date as possible.

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Enable print driver isolation on every driver possible to help prevent bad drivers from taking down the entire system.Review who has administrative rights to these servers, how their firewalls are configured, and what is installed on them.Hardening the server becomes critical to protect your infrastructure.

#Windows 10 directory list and print install#

If you go the route of not requiring elevation to install printers from trusted servers, the print server itself becomes the sensitive target. Additional “Best Practices”Īlong with the above configuration, there’s a few other settings I would include in your overall printer configuration policies as a baseline. Package Point and Print – Approved ServersĬonfiguring this setting is highly recommended if you are configured regular Point and Print as I described earlier.

These settings can be found in Group Policy under “Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Printers”. Point and Print allows users to install shared printers and drivers easily by downloading the driver from the print server. In this post, I’m going to go over a “proper” Point and Print configuration, that will allow you to continue to let users without admin rights install printers, along with some additional “best practices” that I would consider putting in place if not already. While the vulnerabilities are still present on the system, this may help mitigate compromise, however, you may find yourself with many Help Desk tickets for printer installations. My assumption is that this is to catch all of the Point and Print misconfigurations out there once and for all.

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Now, as part of the 2021-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 ( KB5005652-Manage new Point and Print default driver installation behavior (CVE-2021-34481)), unless you go and create/set a specific registry item, Point and Print will now be locked down and require administrative rights to install drivers from any print server. PrintNightmare has been through a few evolutions as of late. UPDATE 3: The Security Baseline for Windows 11 includes an updated SecGuide.admx template that can natively control the new registry item. UPDATE 2: Added additional information about Package Point and Print