To do this, start by expanding the Print Servers node in the console tree to display the local server:. Right-click on this local server and select Automatically Add Network Printers. This opens a dialog box that will scan the local subnet for any network printers present:.
Figure 4: Dialog box to scan for network printers on the local subnet. Click the Start button and the scanning process begins, and once the subnet has been scanned the information gathered will be processed, printer drivers will be installed, print queues will be created, and the printers will be shared.
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.
On starting the service, it is initialized with the defined queues and creates a thread pool containing the set number of threads. When a user prints using a PDFCreator Server printer that was shared in the network, the service is notified about the new print job.
The job is then stored in the queue assigned to the printer. As soon as a free thread is available in the threadpool, the job gets dequeued and is converted using the settings defined for the queue it came from. Once the conversion is completed, the created file is stored in the designated location. The fact that PDFCreator Server uses a windows service allows the application to run without a user being logged on.
We have converted 20 batches with simple print jobs each and repeated this on an increasing number of threads of PDFCreator Server. As a quick result, you can see a near-linear performance boost when adding more threads. And even in with just a single thread the performance is about 3 times faster.
PDFCreator Server. Information contained in these blog posts may be out of date. End-of-life refers to the date when Microsoft will no longer offer security updates, technical support, software, and content updates for the operating system.
At that time, such machines will no longer meet UT minimum security requirements, leaving these systems vulnerable to attacks. In addition, new hardware, software, and third party software updates may no longer work with Windows Server In short, continuing to rely on Windows Server after its end of life date is a disaster waiting to happen.
If you are running Windows Server today, it is highly recommended that you plan to upgrade your system, or migrate its functionality, to Windows as soon as possible.
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