MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
Configuration
Chapter 8
Introduction to Printers in a
Windows Server 2008 Network
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
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Windows Printer Model for Windows
Server 2008
• Components most often found in Windows printing
environments
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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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