The portion of the hard drive where print jobs are stored is called a Print Queue. After that, the job is sent to the print device whenever it's available. Concept of logical printer The logical printer in Windows is composed of three different parts which are the print device physical printer , the print driver and the spooler. The computer where we have established printing is called the Print Server.
Printing pool. You can create a printing pool to automatically distribute print jobs to the next available printer. A printing pool is one logical printer connected to multiple printers through multiple ports of the print server.
The printer that is idle receives the next document sent to the logical printer. This is useful in a network with a high volume of printing because it decreases the time users wait for their documents. A printing pool also simplifies administration because multiple printers can be managed from the same logical printer on a server.
The Manage Documents permission assigns the ability to control job settings for all documents and to pause, restart, and delete all documents. The Manage Printer permission assigns the ability to pause and restart the printer, change spooler settings, share a printer, adjust printer permissions, and change printer properties. The ability to assign access to a printer on a per-user or a per-group basis makes it possible to manage printers from a central location.
For example, an administrator could limit access to a printer in a public area while managing the printer from a more secure, central location. Members of the Administrators group can create a full delegated print administrator by assigning the Manage Server permission to a user. When the Manage Server permission is assigned, the View Server permission is also automatically assigned.
You can also delegate a subset of these permissions to create a partial delegated print administrator. In the left pane, click Print Servers , right-click the applicable print server, and then click Properties. To configure permissions for a new group or user, click Add. Click OK to close the dialog box. Before adding any printers to the server, you should create a group of users who can perform delegated print tasks, and then configure the proper permissions.
If you do this, all newly added printers automatically inherit these settings, and you do not have to individually configure existing printers for the print server. The View Server permission is assigned too. Follow the previous instructions, but select the Allow check boxes for the Manage Server and Print permissions. View Server permission is assigned automatically too. The following table lists the print tasks that a user can perform when assigned the corresponding permissions from the Print Server Properties Security tab.
Sign in to vote. Hey Everyone! Here is the situation: I have about 35 Active Directory sites in my domain. Each site has at least one domain controller and some have two. We have a hub and spoke topology with several regional hub sites. The regional hub sites register their SRV records in DNS to cover some of the spoke sites should their local domain controller be down or is too busy.
Also, we are using the priority setting for the SRV records to set a lower priority to the local DC and the regional hub sites with a higher priority. Network connectivity exists between the spoke sites and the regional hub sites, but not between spoke sites.
Only the necessary ports are opened between the spoke sites and the regional hub sites. If I publish printers in a site they remain in the directory for about a day and then are removed from the directory.
When I check the event logs on the print server I can see several event 42 IDs listed that the printers were unpublished. If I check the system event logs on my DCs I cannot find any events that state that the printers were removed from the directory.
I downloaded the system event logs from all my DCs and preformed a search against all the logs to try and find which one was removing the printers from the directory.
Privacy policy. This article describes the policies specific to managing printers and how to use Group Policy settings to manage printers in Active Directory. Active Directory printer-related settings can be enabled or disabled by using Group Policy settings.
All Group Policy settings are contained in Group Policy Objects that are associated with Active Directory containers sites, organizational units, and domains.
This structure maximizes and extends Active Directory. This article describes the policies specific to managing printers and how to enable or disable printer management by using the Local Group Policy Editor.
Select the Active Directory container of the domain that you want to manage an organizational unit or a domain. Right-click that container, and then select Properties.
Allow Printers to be published: Enables or disables the publishing of printers in the directory. Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections: Controls whether the print spooler will accept client connections. When the policy isn't configured, the spooler won't accept client connections until a user shares out a local printer or opens the print queue on a printer connection.
At this point, the spooler will start accepting client connections automatically. Allow pruning of published printers: Determines whether the domain controller can prune delete from Active Directory the printers that are published by this computer.
By default, the pruning service on the domain controller prunes printer objects from Active Directory if the computer that published them doesn't respond to contact requests. When the computer that published the printers restarts, it republishes any deleted printer objects.
Automatically publish new printers in the Active Directory: By default, this setting is turned on. It can be turned off so that only shared printers that are selected are put in the directory. Check published state: Used to verify that published printers are published in Active Directory.
By default, the published state isn't verified. If this bit isn't selected, the navigation pane of the Printers folder displays URLs for selected printer plus a vendor support URL if it's available. The default isn't selected, which means no customized support URL. Computer Location: Specifies the default location criteria that are used when searching for printers. This setting is a component of the Location Tracking feature of Windows printers.
To use this setting, enable Location Tracking by enabling the Pre-populate printer search location text setting. When Location Tracking is enabled, the system uses the specified location as a criterion when users search for printers. The value that you type here overrides the actual location of the computer that is conducting the search.
Type the location of the user's computer. When users search for printers, the system uses the specified location and other search criteria to find a printer nearby.
You can also use this setting to direct users to a particular printer or group of printers that you want them to use. Directory pruning interval: The pruning interval determines the period of time that the pruner sleeps between checks for abandoned PrintQueue objects. The pruner reads the pruning interval value every hour. Directory pruning retry: Sets the number of times that the PrintQueue pruner tries to contact the print server before it deletes an abandoned PrintQueue object.
Directory pruning priority: Sets the thread priority of the pruning thread. The pruning thread runs only on domain controllers and is responsible for deleting stale printers from the directory. The default value is 0.
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