We have been experiencing an issue with our printers randomly not mapping for users in our computer lab. GPUpdate is a quickfix and applies all GPOs/maps the printers that should have been applied earlier at logon/restart.
the printers fail to map with some variation of a 4098 error being logged in the event viewer has persisted through (In no particular order):
-Using a script to map printers instead of GPO GPP. This proves it’s not directly a GPO/GPP issue but could still be some obscure, unrelated GPO setting that’s having bizarre side effects.
-Upgrading from Win 7 to Win 8.1
-Replacing the print server
-Pointing printer maps to a completely different print server(VM)
-Mapping by IPv4 address rather than DNS name or NetBIOS name, presumably eliminating anything IPv6 related.
-Cleansing the clients and server of what was believed to be a...