Kotlarski 1.1 Jul/3/2014 Added Cover page and standard KMI White paper formatting Added Figure references M.Morisse Copyright All Rights Reserved, Copyright(c) 2014 KONICA MINOLTA, INC. Trademark Credits PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. PCL is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. Microsoft, Windows, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1 are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Citrix®, Citrix Presentation Server™, and XenApp™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. Index 1. Products .............................................................................................................. 5 2. Information .......................................................................................................... 5 3. Further Information ............................................................................................ 6 4. Workaround ........................................................................................................ 7 4.1. Specify the driver isolation mode by INF file ................................................... 7 4.2. Administrate this function via GPO ................................................................. 7 4.2.1 Driver Isolation can completely disabled by GPO ..................................... 7 4.2.2 Driver Isolation can be overridden by GPO ............................................... 7 4.3. By Print Management Console ....................................................................... 8 5. Updates ............................................................................................................... 8 Driver Isolation Mode White Paper 1. Products General printer driver technology 2. Information Since Windows 7 a new printer driver feature has been adapted. It is called “Driver Isolation Mode”. This isolation mode provides a kind of “sandbox”, for example on a server, in which a printer driver is running. Advantage of this driver isolation mode is that if there would be a major problem only this printer driver crashes and not the whole system/the complete print spooler process. To understand this function better, let us use the following scenario: A customer has different printer with different drivers installed on a server. These printer drivers do not support the isolation mode activated by default. If a client is printing a document which crashes the spooler, no other driver can be used on the server as the complete spooler process is crashed. Therefore the administrator has to restart the whole spooler service. If these drivers are running in an isolation mode, only the isolated driver will crash...