{"id":26398,"date":"2023-03-10T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.ji42.com\/?p=26398"},"modified":"2023-03-10T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:14:03","slug":"fix-printer-error-0x00000bc4-or-0x00000709-in-windows-11-22h2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/?p=26398","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Printer Error 0x00000bc4 or 0x00000709 in Windows 11 22H2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After updating Windows 11 to version 22H2, your network printers may stop working. Also, the error code 0x00000bc4<\/code> (Desc: ERROR_PRINTER_NOT_FOUND<\/code>) or 0x00000709<\/code> (Desc: ERROR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME<\/code>) appears when adding a new network printer.<\/p>\n

Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000bc4).\n\nNo Printers Were Found.<\/pre>\n
The printer name is invalid.<\/p>\n
Cause<\/h4>\n
Windows 11 version 22H2 introduced a new group policy named \u201cConfigure RPC Connection settings.\u201d This policy setting controls which protocol and protocol settings to use for outgoing RPC connections to a remote print spooler.<\/p>\n
The default setting in 22H2 blocks Windows from finding your network printers. This causes your existing printers to be erased, and adding them manually causes the error 0x00000bc4.<\/p>\n
Setting \u201cConfigure RPC Connection settings\u201d to \u201cRPC over named pipes\u201d fixes the issue.<\/p>\n
Solution<\/h4>\n
To fix the network printer error 0x00000bc4, try these steps:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. Launch the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc<\/code>)\n
  2. Go to the following section:\n
    Administrative Templates \u2192 Printers \u2192 Configure RPC connection settings<\/pre>\n
  3. Select \u201cRPC over named pipes\u201d from the dropdown, and click OK.\"rpc-printer-gpo-w11\"<\/a>\n
  4. Exit the Group Policy Editor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Registry Setting for the above GPO<\/h6>\n
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Printers\\RPC]<\/p>\n
    There are 2 values that can be configured:<\/p>\n
    RpcUseNamedPipeProtocol<\/code> REG_DWORD<\/p>\n
    0: RpcOverTcp (default)
    1: RpcOverNamedPipes<\/p>\n
    Credits<\/h5>\n
    The above solution was initially found by @thomas_forde<\/a>, who tweeted about it recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    After updating Windows 11 to version 22H2, your network printers may stop working. Also, the error code 0x00000bc4 (Desc: ERROR_PRINTER_NOT_FOUND) or 0x00000709 (Desc: ERROR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME) appears when adding a new network printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000bc4). No Printers Were Found. The printer name is invalid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cOVM-6RM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26399,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/26399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}