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Sometimes you can encounter situation when you try to connect to Terminal server using RDP with Printer redirection enabled but printer doesn`t show in Terminal session. This problem occurs with printer port names that do not begin with COM, USB or LPT.  How to deal with that? In that case you must add registry setting to redirect all printer ports. To do that open registry on your Windows XP machine and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR

On the Edit menu select New and then DWORD value. Type FilterQueueType and press Enter. On new value right click and select modify. Type FFFFFFFF and click OK. This will enable all ports to be redirected.

That all!

Additional Account Info addon will help you gather some usefull information about your active directory users.

User properties in AD users and computers

In order to have this add on your Windows server 2003 based active directory download “Account Lockout and Management Tools” from here .
Extract contents of the package and copy “acctinfo.dll” file to %systemroot%/system32 directory.

Then press Start > Run and type:
regsvr32 acctinfo.dll

Press OK.

Thats it, now you have additional tab under user properties in your active directory.

Open Active directory users and computers snap in and check it.

Cheers !