Event ID 50 — AD DS Printer Publishing

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

You can publish printer information to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) so that users can search for printers by location or other attributes. Publishing a printer creates a PrintQueue object in AD DS as a child of the print server computer account.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 50
Source: Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: MSG_PRUNING_PRINTER
Message: The print spooler removed print queue %1 from the Active Directory directory service. No user action is required.
To stop logging information events for the print spooler, in Control Panel, open Printers, right-click a blank area of the window, click Server Properties, click the Advanced tab, and then clear the Log spooler information events check box.

Resolve

This is a normal condition. No further action is required.

AD DS Printer Publishing

Printing Infrastructure