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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Pages 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment 2. Managing Windows Networking 3. Managing Windows Active Directory 4. Managing Windows Storage 5. Managing Shared Data 6. Managing Windows Update 7. Managing Printing 8. Introducing Containers 9. Managing Windows Internet Information Server 10. Managing Desired State Configuration 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Managing Performance and Usage 14. Troubleshooting Windows Server Index

Creating a printer pool


Windows allows you to create a printer pool, which is a printer with two or more print devices (that is, printer ports) available. Windows sends a given print job to any of the printers in the pool. This feature is useful in environments where users do a lot of printing and need the speed that additional printers can provide, without having to ask the user to choose a specific print device to use.

There are no PowerShell cmdlets to enable you to create a printer pool. Also, WMI does not provide a mechanism to create a printer pool. As with other recipes in this chapter, you make use of PrintUI.DLL and RunDLL32 to deploy a printer pool. This is another example of utilizing older console applications to achieve your objective.

Getting ready

Run this recipe on the PSRV print server. This recipe uses the printer and port you created in the Installing and sharing printers recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Add an additional port for the SalesPrinter1 printer:

    $P = 'SalesPP2'      # new...
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