To manage printers, you manage the print queues that service those printers. DRA enables you to pause or resume, start, modify, stop, and view resource printers and published printers. DRA also lets you modify the properties and priorities of print jobs. To add or delete a printer, use the native Windows tools.
A print server is a computer on which one or more logical printers are installed. A logical printer is defined on the computer that has the printer device driver. A logical printer includes the print driver, print queue, and ports for a printer. The print server associates logical printers with printer devices.
A connected printer is defined on the computers from which documents are selected for printing. A connected printer is a connection to a print share on the network. Therefore, you can manage printers and print jobs through the associated computers.
A published printer is a printer published in Active Directory. A published printer can be a network printer that is not directly connected to a server or it can be a printer hosted by cluster server.
To learn more about managing printers and print tasks, see the following topics:
You can manage printers associated with computers in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage printers while managing other resources for that computer.
This section guides you through administering printers in the Account and Resource Management console. With the appropriate powers, you can perform various printer management tasks, such as stopping a printer.
You can manage properties for printers in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage printers while managing other resources for that computer.
You can pause a printer associated with a computer in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage printers while managing other resources for that computer.
You can resume a printer associated with a computer in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage printers while managing other resources for that computer.
You can manage print jobs associated with printers in the managed domain or managed subtree. Because print jobs are associated with a printer, you can manage print jobs while managing the printer.
This section guides you through managing print jobs in the Account and Resource Management console. With the appropriate powers, you can perform various print job management tasks, such as canceling a print job.
You can modify print job properties as part of your printer management workflow. Because print jobs are associated with printers, you can modify the print job while managing the corresponding printer. The print job properties you can modify depend on the type of power you have. To modify print job properties, you must be able to access the corresponding printer and computer.
You can pause a print job on a printer in a managed domain or managed subtree. To pause a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding printer and computer. Pausing a print job does not delete the print job from the print queue.
You can resume a print job that was paused. To resume a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding printer and computer.
You can restart a print job that was stopped. To restart a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding printer and computer.
You can cancel a print job that is in the printer queue. When you cancel a print job, DRA permanently deletes the print job from the printer queue. To cancel a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding printer and computer.
You can manage published printers in the managed domain or managed subtree. You can add or search for any printer that is published in the Active Directory or printers that are hosted by cluster server.
This section guides you through administering published printers in the Account and Resource Management console. With the appropriate powers, you can perform various printer management tasks, such as stopping a printer.
You can manage properties for published printers in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
You can refresh the published printer information in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
You can pause a published printer in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
You can resume a published printer that was paused in the managed domain or managed subtree. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
You can move a published printer available in one container in the managed domain to another container in the same domain. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
You can rename a shared published printer in the Active Directory. DRA lets you manage published printers while managing other resources.
NOTE:Renaming a published printer in Active Directory does not change the resource printer share name or propagate the name change to the resource printer you want to manage. For example, if the resource printer name is Emerald and you rename the printer to Ruby in Active Directory, other users will see the printer name as Ruby, but the resource printer name will continue to be Emerald.
You can manage printer jobs associated with published printers in the managed domain or managed subtree. Because print jobs are associated with a printer, you can manage print jobs while managing the published printer.
This section guides you through administering published printers in the Account and Resource Management console. With the appropriate powers, you can perform various print job management tasks, such as canceling a print job.
You can modify print job properties as part of your published printer management workflow. Because print jobs are associated with printers, you can modify the print job while managing the corresponding published printer. The print job properties you can modify depend on the type of power you have. To modify print job properties, you must be able to access the corresponding published printer.
You can pause a print job on a published printer in a managed domain or managed subtree. To pause a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding published printer. Pausing a print job does not delete the print job from the print queue.
You can resume a print job that was paused in a managed domain or managed subtree. To resume a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding published printer.
You can restart a print job that was stopped in a managed domain or managed subtree. To restart a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding published printer.
You can cancel a print job that is in the printer queue in a managed domain or managed subtree. When you cancel a print job, DRA permanently deletes the print job from the printer queue. To cancel a print job, you must be able to access the corresponding published printer.