Hardening Print Management under Windows Server 2008

Print Management has always been an important aspect of Windows Server service management, with many improvements to print management in Windows Server 2008, as well as a number of new features. This article will share with you the author's three tips for printing management using Windows Server 2008, and I hope it helps.

1. Add a printer or print server to the Print Management console

The Print Management console is our preferred tool for managing printers and print servers under Windows Server 2008. After you install the Print service in Windows Server 2008, you can use the Print Management console for print management operations such as installation, viewing, print migration, print monitoring, and so on.

However, to effectively manage printers on your network, you first need to add them to the management console. By default, the Print Management console has added printers that are installed in the local print server. If you want to manage other remote printers and print servers, we need to add them manually. The following is a separate addition to the remote printer and the remote print server.

(1). To add a remote printer

Click "Start" → "admin tools" → "Print Management" into the Print Manager console window, expand Print Server in the left pane, right-click on the Printers node and choose Add Printer to enter the Network Printer Setup wizard. We chose to add TCP/IP or Web server printers by IP address or hostname (you can also select "Search for printers on the network" to retrieve) and click Next. Then go to the "Printer address" page, select "Automatic Detection" for the device type, and then enter "printer name or IP address" and "Port name." Click Next to scan for detection and verification to complete the printer's addition. (Figure 1)

Figure 1 Adding a remote printer

(2). Adding a remote print server

In the Print Management Console window, right-click the Print server node in the left pane and select Add/Remove servers to eject the Add/Remove Servers dialog box, which is listed here if you have added other print servers. We can enter the name of the print server directly in the text box under Add Server, and if you want to add multiple print server servers, separate the names with commas. Or we can click Browse to open the Select Print Server dialog box, click the server you want to add, and then click Select Server to return to the Add/Remove Servers dialog box. Finally, we click the Add Local server button to complete the print server to the Print Management console Add. (Figure 2)

Figure 2 Adding a remote print server

2, the free deployment of printing tasks to achieve the load balance printer

One of the biggest benefits of using Print management control to manage print resources on a network is that you can migrate printers and corresponding print queues from one print server to another based on the current load on each printer. This will be able to integrate all the printing resources, to achieve effective print task deployment to achieve printer load balancing, prevent the individual printer task too much, the print task is waiting, while other printers are idle. Here's what we can do to achieve the above tasks.

In order to illustrate that the author first explained the two concepts, when mobile printers, we will be the server where the printer is the source server, and the printer to migrate to the server we call the target server. Following action: In the Print Management console, right-click the source server and select the Export printer as File command to enter the Printer Migration Wizard. The printer's information is displayed on the initial page of the wizard, and I hope you'll notice. Click Next to go to the Select File Location page and click Browse to select the location where the printer migration file is saved. Name the file (migrate file extension million printerexport) to complete the save of the printer migration file. (Figure 3)

Figure 3 Printer Migration

After the export operation is complete, click Open Event Viewer to see if the export process occurs as an event. If there is a mistake in the operation, we can judge the cause of the error according to the content of the event and use effective measures to arrange the mistake. (Figure 4)

Figure 4 Event Viewer