Strengthen print management under Windows Server 2008

Print management has always been an important aspect of Windows Server service management. In Windows Server 2008, many improvements have been made to print management, and many new features have been provided. This article will share with you the three skills of the author in the use of Windows Server 2008 for print management, I hope to help everyone.

1. Adding 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. Once we have installed the print service in Windows Server 2008, we can use the print management console to perform print management operations such as installation, viewing, print migration, and print monitoring.

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 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 describes the addition of remote printers and remote print servers.

(1). Add a remote printer

Click "Start" → "Administrative Tools" → "Print Management" to enter the Print Manager console window, expand in the left pane Print Server", right-click on the "Printers" node and select the "Add Printer" command to enter the Network Printer Installation Wizard. We choose to add TCP/IP or Web server printer by IP address or host name (you can also select "Search for printers on the network" to retrieve), click "Next". Then go to the "Printer Address" page, select "Automatically detect" for the device type, and then enter "Printer Name or IP Address" and "Port Name". Click "Next" to complete the printer addition after scanning detection and verification. (Fig. 1)

Fig. 1 Adding a remote printer

(2). Adding a remote print server

In the print management console window, there is Right-click on the "Print Server" node in the left pane and select the "Add/Remove Servers" command to bring up the "Add/Remove Servers" dialog box. If you have already added other print servers, they will be listed here. We can enter the name of the print server directly in the text box under "Add Server", if the name of the server to be added is separated by 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 clicked the "Add Local Server" button to complete the addition of the print server to the print management console. (Figure 2)

Figure 2 Adding a remote print server
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