MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure

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Chapter 8 Introduction to Printers in a Windows Server 2008 Network

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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

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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

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Windows Printer Types (continued)

• Activity 8-1: Installing a Local Printer• Time Required: 10 minutes• Objective: Install a locally attached printer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Configuring Printer Resources

• Sharing a stand-alone Printer– Shared printers are not available in Active Directory

by default

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Configuring Printer Resources (continued)

• Activity 8-10: Sharing a Local Printer• Time Required: 5 minutes• Objective: Set up a local printer for sharing

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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

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Changing Permissions on a Printer (continued)

• Activity 8-11: Setting Permissions on a Shared Printer

• Time Required: 5 minutes• Objective: Manage printer share permissions

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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

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Changing the Printer Port (continued)

• Activity 8-12: Manually Creating a Printer Port (TCP/IP)

• Time Required: 10 minutes• Objective: Manually create printer ports

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Changing the Printer Port (continued)

• Activity 8-13: Changing the Port on a Printer• Time Required: 5 minutes• Objective: Manage printer ports

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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

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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

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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

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Creating Multiple Printers for a Single Print Device (continued)

• Activity 8-16: Changing the Print Priority• Time Required: 10 minutes• Objective: Change printer priority

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Creating Multiple Printers for a Single Print Device (continued)

• Activity 8-17: Scheduling Printers• Time Required: 10 minutes• Objective: Create a printer schedule

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Updating a Printer Driver

• Activity 8-18: Updating a Printer Driver• Time Required: 10 minutes• Objective: Update printer drivers

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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

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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

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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 2008

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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

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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

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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

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