Enabling Easy Print Printer Redirection in Windows 2008

In order to enable Easy Print based printer redirection in Windows 2008 the following requirements are needed:

On the (Terminal) server-side, Windows Server 2008 needs to be installed.  No additional drivers need to be installed; no additional configuration needs to take place.  The Terminal Services Easy Print driver is enabled by default.

On the client-side, to use the Terminal Services Easy Print driver, clients must be running Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) must be installed. on the RDC configuration, put a check mark on the Printers option under "Local Resources" tab.

If you want to have more control over what type of printers you can redirect, the following registry configuration must be implemented:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR (if there is not such key, create the needed structure by yourself). Add a DWORD value FilterQueueType with any of the following decimal values:

FilterQueueType = 1           All ports that begin with LPT
FilterQueueType = 2           All ports that begin with COM
FilterQueueType = 3           All ports that begin with LPT or COM
FilterQueueType = 4           All ports that begin with USB
FilterQueueType = 5           All ports that begin with LPT or USB
FilterQueueType = 6           All ports that begin with COM or USB
FilterQueueType = 7           All ports that begin with LPT, COM, or USB
FilterQueueType = FFFFFFFF    All ports

Close the registry and reboot the client machine.

Cannot Remote Control a Windows 2008 Terminal server session

Follow the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976110. It seems that a Hotfix is needed but the workaround steps worked like a charm for me. Take into account that changing the Local GPO as suggested in the article and then running a gpupdate /force will disconnect the current TS sessions. Users need to connect again but no programs are closed.

Internet Explorer Enhanced security runs despite being turned off

Problem:
In a Windows 2008 Terminal server non-administrative users get IE ESC prompts despite it is turned off for such users

Resolution:

Put these lines in a batch

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Rundll32 iesetup.dll, IEHardenLMSettings
Rundll32 iesetup.dll, IEHardenUser
Rundll32 iesetup.dll, IEHardenAdmin

rem Optional to remove warning on first IE Run and set home page to blank or anything else.
REG DELETE "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" /v "First Home Page" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" /v "Default_Page_URL" /t REG_SZ /d "about:blank" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" /v "Start Page" /t REG_SZ /d "about:blank" /f

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Use the following article to run the batch in the terminal server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195461

For more information about the reason for this problem, check this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/c5572fc7-6e92-46f8-824d-baca246e3106