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Two Minute Drill: Enabling Print Queue Logging 12 August 08 06:00 AM: Every so often, a customer needs to enable logging on their print queues to capture as much information about print activities on their server. Configuring the logging options is actually quite an easy administrative task, but there are a couple Read More...
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Working with Very Large Print Jobs 20 June 08 06:00 AM: There are sometimes situations where printing of very large documents containing high resolution graphics, text and images is needed. With the growing technology of high end cameras flourishing in the market, image sizes are growing larger and larger. Read More...
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The Case of the Stuck Cluster Service 21 March 08 06:00 AM: Today we're going to cover an issue that is more common than you might think, but is one that may be tricky to troubleshoot. The first thing that you may think when you read the title of this post is, "What is the Performance team doing Read More...
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WS2008: Terminal Services Printing 17 February 08 06:00 AM: Day Seventeen and we're still going strong. Only ten days left until launch day! Continuing on with Terminal Services, today's topic is Terminal Services printing in Windows Server 2008 - and more specifically Terminal Services Easy Print. Read More...
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WS2008: Print Management Enhancements 13 February 08 06:00 AM: Welcome to Day Thirteen. We have reached the halfway point of our series. There's only two weeks to go! Today we'll continue on with our look at Printing in Windows Server 2008 - in particular the enhancements to Print Management and the Print Management Read More...
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WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages 12 February 08 06:00 AM: Day Twelve. We're almost halfway through our series. Today we'll continue on with our Printing theme - specifically, Printer-driver packages. We'll also provide some background on the driver store feature of Windows Vista and Windows Read More...
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Filed under: architecture, vista, windows server 2008, printing
WS2008: The WSD Port Monitor 11 February 08 06:00 AM: Welcome back! If you're just returning from a weekend, hopefully you got some time to yourself to relax. It's Day Eleven of our Windows Server 2008 Series. Today's topic - the new WSD Port Monitor. The WSD Port Monitor is a new printer Read More...
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Filed under: architecture, vista, windows server 2008, printing
WS2008: Client-side Rendering 10 February 08 06:00 AM: It's Day Ten of our Windows Server 2008 series. Seventeen Days to go. Today we'll be talking about Client-Side Rendering. Client-Side Rendering (CSR) is a new feature that allows print jobs to be fully rendered on the client when targeting Read More...
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WS2008: Understanding XML Paper Specification (XPS) 09 February 08 06:00 AM: It's Day Nine of our Windows Server 2008 series. We're one-third of the way through our series. Today we will continue on with our look at printing in Windows Server 2008. Our topic today - XML Paper Specification (XPS) Support. The Read More...
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WS2008: The Print Services Role 08 February 08 06:00 AM: Welcome to Day Eight of our Windows Server 2008 series. Only nineteen more days to go. Today we're going to go over some of the basic printing concepts, specifically dealing with the Print Services Role, Role Services and Features in Windows Read More...
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Disabling Advanced Print Features 23 October 07 05:30 AM: Recently, I've had several engineers ask me about disabling of the Advanced Print Features as a troubleshooting step. I sat down with one of our print developers to talk about the Advanced Print Features - what they do and why they are useful. Read More...
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Kernel-Mode Print Drivers: Gone the Way of the Dinosaur 14 September 07 06:15 AM: If you have been around since the days of Windows NT, then you are probably all too familiar with Kernel-mode Print Drivers and the devastating effect that problems with those drivers can have on system stability. In the majority of environments, these Read More...
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Using Server Core as a Print Server 11 September 07 05:20 AM: A few weeks ago we posted our initial walkthrough on Windows Server 2008 Server Core - getting the OS installed and joining the server to a domain. Today we're going to continue getting our Server Core implementation and turn the machine into a functional Read More...
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Terminal Server and Printer Redirection 24 August 07 01:15 PM: A common issue we work with is Printer Redirection issues with Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003. Although printer redirection seems fairly simple on the surface, the issues that we work on can get somewhat convoluted. So today we're going to look Read More...
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Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Three: Troubleshooting Missing Print Queues 07 August 07 07:28 AM: Many a times after a failover occurs on a clustered print server, a chill runs down the IT Administrator's spine when he notices that there are print queues missing. Today we will discuss a few basic things to check. Before doing ANYTHING however, get Read More...
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