When you use Group Policy Preferences (GPP) to deploy printers to a client computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the deployment fails. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Note You also receive the error message when you try to manually connect the printers to the computer.
When the issue occurs, the following event log is logged:
The specified port is unknown (0x80070704 or 0x704)
Note You also receive the error message when you try to manually connect the printers to the computer.
When the issue occurs, the following event log is logged: