Microsoft August 2021 patch removes network printers - HELP!

[Storm5Time]

When the Horizon 7 linked clones are refreshed or recomposed, the existing user printer mappings are gone.  All of my users now need to call Help Desk and ask them to map/install the network printers every time their desktop is refreshed or recomposed.  Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

[Anobix67]

Yep, currently facing this in computer labs. The removal of the ability for non-admins to install printers broke GPP and our login script printing additions. There aren't V4 drivers for every printer that we use, so for the time being we put in a GPO that allows non-admins to install printers again and it is working. 

What a mess.

[RogerPickett]

Anyone found a solution to this?  We use older printers as well and a 2016 print server.  I cannot map 200 users ever time I recompose the desktops.  Thanks microsoft.

[BenTrojahn]

put the exact driver in the image.  e.g. no administrative rights are needed to install and restricted users then can add session printers.

[Gleason7]

This problem may occur if you are using the wrong printer driver or it's out of date. So you should update your printer driver to see if it fixes your problem.

LiteBlue

[JustSomeGuyDude]

Use the Microsoft PCL 6 Class Driver for printers without v4 drivers. This can be added to the print server by following the "Add a Printer" prompt and select Microsoft as the vendor. 

An issue I had months ago was also causing problems with printers showing up on logon. In DEM i had to create a logon task than ran a powershell script. It was only two lines:

$Nothing = get-printer

exit

For some reason, the spooler doesn't want to start unless you try to observe it (insert Schodinger's cat reference). By triggering get-printer, the spooler start ups and loads the printers so users can see them when they try to print. This wasn't an issue on Windows 10 1809 and earlier.