MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration Chapter 8 Introduction to Printers in a Windows Server 2008 Network

MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration 2 Objectives Discuss the Windows Printer Model and how it is implemented in Windows Server 2008 Install the Print Services components of Windows Server 2008 Deploy printers with Windows Server 2008 Configure printers on a Windows Server 2008 network

Windows Printer Model for Windows Server 2008 Components most often found in Windows printing environments –Print device –Printer driver –Printer –Print server In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the printer driver can render print job in –Enhanced metafile –XML paper specification 3 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Windows Printer Types Locally attached printers –Connected directly to a physical computer port –Print job: document submitted by a client computer for processing through the logical printer Network attached printers –Contain a network adapter or connect to a hardware print server that manages it Using a logical printer on every client –Each computer acts as its own print server by maintaining the printer settings and drivers 5 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Windows Printer Types (continued) Activity 8-1: Installing a Local Printer Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Install a locally attached printer 6 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Windows Printer Types (continued) Using a Windows Server 2008 print server –With a print server, all network clients can print through the server when they are connected to it –Often, File Services and Print Services are deployed on the same machine because both perform short transactions that work well together 8 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Deploying Printers and Print Services Installing the Print Services role –Print Server: the only required service when installing the Print Services role Line Printer Daemon service –Allows access to shared printers from computers that use the Line Printer Remote (LPR) service Internet printing –Role service creates a Web site that hosts printers 10 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers and Print Services (continued) Activity 8-2: Installing the Print Services Role Time Required: 15 minutes Objective: Install the Print Services role along with the print server role service 11 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers and Print Services (continued) Activity 8-3: Connecting to a Network Printer Using a Web Browser Time Required: 15 minutes Objective: Install the Internet printing role service 12 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers and Print Services (continued) Installing Print Services and Printers on Server Core –Server Core can be used as a print server –After Server Core is set up as a print server, you can deploy printers to it 13 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers and Print Services (continued) Activity 8-4: Installing the Print Services Role on Server Core Time Required: 15 minutes Objective: Configure Server Core as a print server 14 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers and Print Services (continued) Activity 8-5: Installing a Printer on Server Core Time Required: 15 minutes Objective: Install a network printer on Server Core 15 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers to Clients Add Printer Wizard in Control Panel –Users who have permissions can use the Add Printer Wizard on their client computer Adding Shared Printer Resources with Windows Explorer –Printers share contains all printers available on the print server Adding a Printer with a UNC Path –You can add printers by using the UNC path to the printer 16 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Deploying Printers to Clients (continued) Activity 8-6: Adding a Network Printer Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Add a network printer to use an LPR port 18 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers to Clients (continued) Activity 8-7: Finding a Network Printer Using Active Directory Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Use the Active Directory search window 19 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers to Clients (continued) Activity 8-8: Connecting to a Network Printer Using a UNC Path Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Add a network printer 20 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers to Clients (continued) Adding printers using Group Policy –You can then deploy printers to both users and computers via Group Policy –You can use both Computer configuration and User configuration policies 21 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Deploying Printers to Clients (continued) Activity 8-9: Adding a Printer to a Group Policy Object Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Add a printer to a Group Policy object 22 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Configuring Printer Resources Sharing a stand-alone Printer –Shared printers are not available in Active Directory by default 23 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Configuring Printer Resources (continued) Activity 8-10: Sharing a Local Printer Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Set up a local printer for sharing 24 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Changing Permissions on a Printer Printers use permissions based on Access Control Lists to manage access and control usage By using these permissions effectively –You can allow users to print to specific printers and allow certain users or groups to manage the print queues of a printer 25 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Changing Permissions on a Printer (continued) Activity 8-11: Setting Permissions on a Shared Printer Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Manage printer share permissions 26 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Changing the Printer Port Printer port –The connection that printers use to send print jobs to a print device Reasons for changing printer ports –Replacing a new print device –Changing the IP address of a network print device –Migrating the jobs on a printer to a different print device when a print device fails –Creating a printer pool 28 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Changing the Printer Port (continued) Activity 8-12: Manually Creating a Printer Port (TCP/IP) Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Manually create printer ports 29 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Changing the Printer Port (continued) Activity 8-13: Changing the Port on a Printer Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Manage printer ports 30 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Creating a Printer Pool Printer pool –Single printer that sends jobs to multiple print devices –Requirements: you need to have two or more printers that can use the same printer driver 31 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Creating a Printer Pool (continued) Activity 8-14: Creating a Printer Pool Time Required: 5 minutes Objective: Create a printer pool using an existing printer 32 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Creating Multiple Printers for a Single Print Device Activity 8-15: Creating an Additional Printer for the Exec Printers Group Time Required: 20 minutes Objective: Add a printer that prints to a single print device 33 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Creating Multiple Printers for a Single Print Device (continued) Activity 8-16: Changing the Print Priority Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Change printer priority 34 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Creating Multiple Printers for a Single Print Device (continued) Activity 8-17: Scheduling Printers Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Create a printer schedule 35 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Updating a Printer Driver Activity 8-18: Updating a Printer Driver Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Update printer drivers 36 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Managing Printers and Print Services PMC –Installed on Full versions of Windows Server 2008 when the Print Server role service is installed –Available as a stand-alone Microsoft Management Console (MMC) or through the Server Manager console 37 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Working with Print Queues Activity 8-19: Migrating a Print Queue Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Migrate a print queue from a failed print device 38 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Managing Server Core Print Services Print Servers installed on Server Core can be managed in two ways –From Server Core console, you can use a combination of CLI utilities and built-in print scripts –Use the PMC from a computer running the Full version of Windows Server MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

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Managing Server Core Print Services (continued) Activity 8-20: Managing a Printer on Server Core using PMC Time Required: 10 minutes Objective: Remotely manage a printer using the PMC 41 MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Summary Components involved in the printing process –Print device, the printer driver, and the print server In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista –The printer driver can render the print job in the EMF format Windows Server 2008 –Supports printing using locally attached printers For most environments –Running the Print Server role service is the suggested method for managing multiple printers attached to the network MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration 42

Summary (continued) To install the Print Services role and the associated role services –You can use Server Manager or from the command line Deploying printers –Typical administrative task After deploying new printer resources –You may need to reconfigure them to meet the changing needs of your business MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration 43