Disable RDP Client Printer Mappings on Windows Servers

When you connect RDP to a server, the printer mappings can usually cause Event ID 1111 in the System log due to the printer drivers not being installed on the remote server.  Up until Windows 2008 it was easy to launch TSConfig.MSC and disable printer mappings for good.  Windows Server 2012 no longer has this console, but you can still control this with the same single regval.

Command line:

REG.exe ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp" /V fDisableCpm   /t REG_DWORD /D 1 /F

Registry file:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp]

"fDisableCpm"=dword:00000001

With Regedit.exe, you can just search the registry for value "fdisablecpm" and change them all to 1.

You can also try the Group Policy methods, or the GP regvals that affect this location:

http://acidx.net/wordpress/2013/02/disable-rdp-printer-redirection/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2014/06/02/how-to-disable-remote-desktop-printer-mapping.aspx