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Chapter 6

Configuring Windows Server 2008

Printing

Learning Objectives

• Understand how Windows Server 2008 printing works

• Use the XPS Print Path

• Use the XML Paper Specification (XPS)

• Install the Print Services role

• Use the Printers window to configure printing properties

MCITP Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008,

Server Administration (Exam #70-646)

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Learning Objectives (cont’d.)

• Install local and shared printers

• Configure printer properties

• Configure a nonlocal or Internet printer

• Manage print jobs

• Use the Print Management tool

• Troubleshoot common printing problems



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An Overview of Windows Server 2008

Printing

• Clients can print on local print devices or network print devices

• Network print client

– Workstation or application that generates the print job

• Network print server

– Computer or print server device offering the printer share



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An Overview of Windows Server 2008

Printing (cont’d.)

• Print job

– Document or items to be printed

• Shared network printer device

– Object that is made available to network users for print services

• Spooling

– Frees the server CPU to handle other processing requests in addition to print requests

• Printer driver

– Provides the formatting instructions for a given printer



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How Network Printing Works

• Software application at client generates a print file

• Application communicates with the Windows graphics device interface (GDI)

• Print file formatted with control codes to implement the special graphics, font, and color characteristics of the file

• Software application places print file in client’s spooler by writing spool file to spooling subfolder

• Remote print provider makes a remote procedure call to network print server



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How Network Printing Works (cont’d.)

• Network print server uses four processes to receive and process a print file:

– Router, print provider, print processor, and print monitor

• Server service calls Print Spooler service

• Print provider works with print processor to ensure that file is formatted to use right data type

• Print monitor pulls file from spooler’s disk storage and sends it to printer



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How Network Printing Works (cont’d.)

• Activity 6-1: Print Spooler Service

– Objective: Learn about the Print Spooler service and the services upon which it depends

Figure 6-1 Viewing the description of the Print Spooler service

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Learning



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How Internet Printing Works

• Internet Information Services (IIS) must be installed and running in Windows Server 2008

• Client must connect to the Windows Server 2008 IIS using a Web browser

• Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

– Encapsulates the remote procedure call and print process information and is transported in HTTP

• Activity 6-2: Installing the Internet Printing Client

– Objective: Install the Internet Printing Client so that clients can use IPP



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Using the XPS Print Path

• XML Paper Specification (XPS)

– Advanced way of printing documents for multiple purposes, including viewing electronic pages and printing pages in a polished format

– Offered as an alternative to the GDI print path used by conventional documents

• XPS drive path uses XPSDrv Driver Model



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Installing the Print Services Role

• Use the Print Management tool to:

– Manage shared printers

– Track printing events through a log you can view using the Event Viewer

• Services within role

– Print Server

– Internet Printing

– LPD Service

• Activity 6-3: Installing the Print Services Role

– Objective: Install the Print Services role using

Windows Server 2008



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Using the Printers Window

• Enhanced from previous versions to enable more versatility

• Left pane - Favorite links to folders, folders on the server

• Right pane - Name, Documents, Status, Comments,

Location

• Use File menu to:

– Add a printer, configure a shared printer, use a printer offline, configure a printer’s properties



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Using the Printers Window (cont’d.)

• Activity 6-4: Configuring the Print Server Properties

– Objective: Configure the print server properties from the Printers window

Figure 6-3 Print Server Properties dialog box

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Installing Local and Shared Printers

• Any server or workstation can host a shared printer

Figure 6-4 Shared network printers




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Installing a Printer

• Steps depend on the type of printer you are adding

– Plug and play

– Or Add Printer Wizard

• Activity 6-5: Installing a Printer

– Objective: Install a printer using the Add Printer

Wizard



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Installing a Printer (cont’d.)

Figure 6-5 Setting up a local printer




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Installing a Printer (cont’d.)

Figure 6-6 Sharing a printer




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Enabling Printer Sharing on a Network

• Network printer sharing

– Enables printer sharing through the Windows Firewall

• Activity 6-6: Enabling Printer Sharing

– Objective: Turn on printer sharing over the network



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Configure Printer Properties

• Available by opening Control Panel

• Properties dialog box

– General printer information

– Printer sharing

– Printer port setup

– Printer scheduling and advanced options

– Security

– Device settings



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General Printer Specifications

• General tab

– Name

– Location and Comment boxes

• Store special notes about the printer

– Printer model name

– Printing Preferences button

• Used to specify additional information

• Activity 6-7: Viewing Printing Preferences

– Objective: Determine the default setup for printing preferences on a printer



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General Printer Specifications (cont’d.)

Figure 6-7 Printer Properties General tab




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Sharing Printers

• Sharing tab

– Enable or disable a printer for sharing

– Specify name of the share

• List in the directory option

– To publish the printer through Active Directory

• Render print jobs on client computers option

– Print job is first prepared by software on the client and submitted to the spooler on the client

• Additional Drivers button

– Add new types of clients



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Sharing Printers (cont’d.)

Figure 6-8 Configuring printer sharing




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Sharing Printers (cont’d.)

• Activity 6-8: Configuring the Domain Group Policy to

Enable Publishing a Printer

– Objective: Learn how to enable printer publishing in the domain’s group policy



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Port Specifications

• Ports tab

– Specify which server port is used for the printer

– Options to set up bidirectional printing and printer pooling

• Bidirectional printing

– Used with printers that have bidirectional capability

• Printer pooling

– Configuring two or more identical printers connected to one print server



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Port Specifications (cont’d.)

Figure 6-9 Configuring printer policies




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Figure 6-10 Configuring printer ports




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• The Add Port button enables you to add a new port

– Local Port

– Standard TCP/IP Port

Figure 6-11 Port options


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• Activity 6-9: Configuring Printer Pooling

– Objective: Learn how to configure printer pooling

• Activity 6-10: Transferring Print Jobs

– Objective: Learn how to transfer print jobs from a malfunctioning printer



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Printer Scheduling and Advanced

Options

• Advanced tab

– Have printer available at all times or limit the time to range of hours

– Priority can be set from 1 to 99

– Use spooled printing or bypass the spooler and send print files directly to the printer

• Printer scheduling

– Useful when there is one printer and two printer objects (shares) for that printer



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Options (cont’d.)

• Hold mismatched documents option

– Causes the system to compare the setup of the printer with the setup in the document

• Print spooled documents first

– Enables jobs that have completed spooling to be printed, no matter what their priority

• Keep printed documents option

– Retains documents in the spooler after they have printed



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Options (cont’d.)

• Enable advanced printing features option

– Use special features associated with a particular printer

• Printing Defaults button

– Specify default settings for print jobs

• Data types

– RAW

– RAW (FF appended)

– RAW (FF auto)

– NT EMF

– TEXT



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Options (cont’d.)

• Separator Page option

– Prints a blank page at start of each job

• Activity 6-11: Changing Data Types

– Objective: Learn how to change the data type when printing problems occur



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Configuring Security

• Shared printer can be set up to use security features

– Share permissions, auditing, ownership

• Default permissions

– Everyone group—Print

– Creator Owner—Manage documents

– Administrator account—Print, Manage printers, and

Manage documents

– Administrators, Server Operators, Print Operators groups —Print, Manage printers, and Manage documents



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Configuring Security (cont’d.)

Figure 6-13 Configuring security




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Table 6-1 Printer share permissions



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• Advanced button on the Security tab

– Special permissions

• Fine-tune shared printer permissions

– Printer auditing

• Activity 6-12: Configuring Printer Security

– Objective: Learn how to set up security on a shared printer



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Configuring Device Settings

• Device Settings tab

– Specify printer-specific settings

• Make sure memory reported in device settings matches the memory installed in printer



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Figure 6-14 Configuring shared printer auditing


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Figure 6-15 Configuring printer device settings


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Configuring a Nonlocal Printer or an

Internet Printer

• Connect to a network printer by using the Add

Printer Wizard:

– Open the Printers window

– Double-click Add Printer

– Click Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer

– Select a printer from the list of printers found by the

Add Printer Wizard

– Follow the instructions to complete the installation



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Managing Print Jobs

• Users with Print permissions can:

– Send print jobs to the printer

– Pause, resume, and restart their own print jobs

– Cancel their own print jobs

• Print Operators, Server Operators, and other groups having Manage documents permissions can:

– Send print jobs to the printer

– Pause, resume, and restart any user’s print jobs

– Cancel any user’s print jobs



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Controlling the Status of Printing

• Printer control and setup information for a particular printer associated with that printer’s properties

• Can pause a printer to fix a problem

Figure 6-16 Pausing printing




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Controlling Specific Print Jobs

• Pause, resume, restart, or view the properties of one or more documents in the print queue of a printer

• Print queue

– Stack of print jobs

– First job submitted at the top of the stack and the last job submitted at the bottom

– Contains all jobs waiting to be sent from the spooler to the printer

• Change print priority

• Set time for selected jobs to print



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Controlling Specific Print Jobs (cont’d.)

• Activity 6-13: Pausing a Printer and Canceling a

Document

– Objective: Learn how to pause a printer and cancel a document



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Using the Print Management Tool

• Also called the Print Management Console or PMC

• Centralizes shared printer control in one place

– Enables printer administrators and operators to manage the print functions of some or all of the shared printers on a network

• Tasks performed with Print Management tool

• Activity 6-14: Using the Print Management Tool

– Objective: Learn how to use the Print Management tool



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Using the Print Management Tool

(cont’d.)

Figure 6-18 Print Management tool




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Troubleshooting Common Printing

Problems

• Windows Server 2008 Print Spooler service

– Experiences a temporary difficulty

– Gets out of synchronization

– Hangs

• Solution: stop and restart the print spooler service



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Table 6-2 Troubleshooting printing problems



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Summary

• Windows Server 2008 printing

– Graphics device interface (GDI)

– Files spooled via Print Spooler services

• Internet printing

– Print files through Internet connection using HTTP and Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)

• Print Services role

– Turn Windows Server 2008 into print server

• Install printers using Add Printers Wizard



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Summary (cont’d.)

• Configure installed printers using properties

• Manage printer by pausing, resuming, and setting default printer

• Print Management tool consolidates network printer management

• Troubleshooting printer problems may be simple or complex



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