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In Server Manager, add the Print Services role. On the Select Role Services dialog box, leave the default
of Print Server. As you did with the other roles, click Install and Close. Now you are going to install a
printer.
In the Control Panel double-click Printers.
In the right panel double-click Add Printer.
Click Add a local printer.
Click the option for Create a new port, and select Standard TCP/IP Port and click Next.
Change the Device type to TCP/IP Device. Obviously, we have no physical print device, so the IP address
isn’t important. For the IP address, type “192.168.1.30.” Important: Uncheck Query the printer and
automatically select the driver to install. If you don’t do this, you will be waiting a long time. In the real
world, you wouldn’t uncheck it if you knew the drivers existed in the server.
Click Next and wait until it errors out because it can’t find the printer.
Because it can’t find the printer, it comes to a dialog box asking for the device type. Click Next.
Select an HP Laserjet 8150 PS printer and click Next.
For a printer name, put Room231 and click Next.
Leave the default of Share the printer so that others on your network can find and use it. Click Next.
Click Finish.
STEP 2: Allow Printer to Be Published and Allow Users to Browse for Printers
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You will allow Printer to be published in Active Directory and allow users to browse for printers. This will
make it a lot easier for users to connect to printers.
Action
In Server Manager, expand Features -> Group Policy Management -> Forest:experimental.lab ->
Domains -> experimental.lab.
Right-click Default Domain Policy and click Edit. Expand Computer Configuration->Policies-
>Administrative Templates.
Click printers. Notice in the right panel is “Allow printers to be published.”
Double-click Allow printers to be published and click Enabled.
Click OK.