Print Services enables you to share printers on a network,
as well as to centralize print server and network printer management tasks. It
also enables you to migrate print servers and deploy printer connections using
Group Policy. More...
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Control
how users who are not members of the local Administrators group can install
printer drivers
Read the “Control printer driver installation security”
topic in Print Management Help to learn how to enable users who are not
administrators to install new printer drivers on computers running Windows
Vista or Windows Server 2008.
Install
updated printer drivers on the server, including 32-bit or 64-bit drivers
Read the “Update and manage printer drivers” topic in Print
Management Help to learn how to work with a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit printer
drivers, servers, and client computers.
Migrate
or consolidate print servers by using Print Management
Read the “Migrate print servers” topic in Print Management
Help to learn how you can use the Printer Migration Wizard or the Printbrm.exe
command-line tool to export print queues, printer settings, printer ports, and
language monitors, and then import them on another print server running
Microsoft Windows.
Troubleshooting
Print Spooler Event 6161: The document failed to print
Read this troubleshooting page to learn how to diagnose and
resolve Print Spooler event 6161, which can appear in the System log in Event
Viewer when documents consistently fail to print.
Print Services in the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library
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