How to fix “Printer settings could not be saved. This operation is not supported.” (Server 2012R2)

So here’s a really annoying one and it has to do with printers. Of course right? It always printers or DNS. ALWAYS.

Anyway I wanted to change the driver on one of my deployed printers when I ran into this message:

“Printer settings could not be saved. This operation is not supported.”

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After some digging around, I was able to find the culprit. It’s because there is little box that’s ticked called “Share This Printer” under the Sharing tab.

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Untick that box, click apply, install your new driver, then go back and tick that box again.

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Also make sure you tick the box to List in the directory again if you had that on too because it gets turned off by default when you un-share it.

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