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What could take multiple guys 2 hours or more each to find is accessed in around 15 minutes on Experts Exchange. All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! However, I am having trouble finding where I can add this functionality on a Windows R2 Small Business Server for a new client of mine.
Anyone know the steps and where I would get the snap-in for this version of Windows Server? Rob Williams. The only time you might have to manually intervene is to provide a driver for a printer if Windows doesn't have one for that particular brand of printer. Alternatively, let's say you already have your network printers set up and installed, as I do, and that there are two other Windows Server machines currently functioning as print servers, namely BOX and BOX Let's add BOX to the list of print servers and see what happens.
Figure 5: Adding a print server to Print Management. Figure 6: BOX is added to the list of print servers. By right-clicking on any of these printers you can perform tasks such as the following:.
There's also an option to deploy printers using Group Policy, but we'll cover that one in a future article. Let's go ahead and add BOX as a print server to make the next topic more interesting:. Figure 7: Three print servers listed in Print Management. Say you want to get a quick picture of what's happening with different printers on your network.
For example, say you want to know which printers currently have jobs in their print queues. Using the Print Filters feature of Print Management, this is easy—a lot easier than browsing all the print queues of all your network printers!
Figure 8: Using the default printer filter named Printers With Jobs. Note that both Accounting Printer 1 and Sales Printer 2 have one job in their queue, and that the Accounting printer is ready but the Sales printer is in an error state. Opening the printer queue for the Sales printer lets you see the details of what's in the queue:. Figure 9: Test page is stuck in the queue for Sales Printer 2. That doesn't tell us what's wrong with the printer of course—maybe that could be a feature request for R3!
Anyway, we could also quickly find out which printers are not ready by selecting the Printers Not Ready node, another default printer filter:. Figure Using the default printer filter named Printers Not Ready. As expected, Sales Printer 2 shows up here as the only printer currently not ready on our network. The third default printer filter is named All Printers and this displays all the printers currently on your network we have three on BOX and two on BOX which makes five in total.
What's even more useful is that you can create your own custom printer filters to display whatever you want to know about printers on your network.
Let's see how this works. This starts the New Printer Filter Wizard, and let's say we want to create a filter that will display all printers on our network that are to be used for color printing only, and also indicate the number there are of such printers in parentheses beside the filter name.
To do this, fill out the first screen of the wizard as follows:. Figure Creating a custom filter to display all color printers on the network. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Print Manager. Asked 11 years, 4 months ago. Active 8 years, 11 months ago.
Viewed 19k times. Improve this question. Satanicpuppy Satanicpuppy 5, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Massimo Massimo Tried it, doesn't work. I don't need the regular "print" stuff, I need the schmancy msc that allows you to integrate your print services better with the AD.
This is quite strange, that console should be installed when you add that component. As for using the 2nd CD, that's the root of the problem. At this point in patching, it won't let me pull anything off the 2nd CD. Yea, I haven't been able to find a damn thing about it online. I can see the fricking file on the 2nd disk
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