day 8 july 13 -printers and field trip

Blog day 8 july 13
Installing a printer group policy on AD, as well as the driver for a Xerox phaser 4510 printer, and be able to push the drivers to workstations on our OU .
The printer we installed was a Xerox Phaser 4510. It was decided beforehand that we would all install the postscript driver. Lyle explained that if we each chose to install a different driver, we could eventually run into difficulties. We had to use this static IP in the TCP/Ip port on the server 192.168.24.51, as the printer was physically attached on Rock and Gails switch on network 24

We found a wonderful Powerpoint resource that ran us through the steps in record time. Skip the Print Pool part and everything is there!
installed the print manager on our server when we had set it up last week.
Start/Adminisrative tools/Server manager
Scroll down to print servers/ Right click/add drivers
A printer driver wizard comes up, select next/
We selected the x86 operating system
We selected the have disc as we had downloaded the software for the Xerox phaser4510 ps driver .
We had to add a local printer and select the TCP/Ip port . This is when it asked for an address and we put in 192.168.24.51.
It went through an install and test page came to the printer

To install print services on the workstations
We went to the OU Sandie-John
Right click/add roles to gpo. Went through the start up and called the printer Xerox Sandie John.
To deploy printers to users or computers by using Group Policy
Open the Administrative Tools folder, and then double-click Print Management.
In the Print Management tree, under the appropriate print server, click Printers.
In the Results pane, right-click the printer that you want to deploy, and then click Deploy with Group Policy.
In the Deploy with Group Policy dialog box, click Browse, and then choose or create a new GPO for storing the printer connections.
Click OK.
Specify whether to deploy the printer connections to users, or to computers:
To deploy to groups of computers so that all users of the computers can access the printers, select the The computers that this GPO applies to (per machine) check box.
To deploy to groups of users so that the users can access the printers from any computer they log onto, select the The users that this GPO applies to (per user) check box.
Click Add.
Click OK.
http://technet.problem.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753109(WS.10).aspx
We logged on to the workstations and printed a notepad document to the printer Xerox SandieJohn without any problems The printer was there automatically

This was an additional step we ran on File redirection from the previous day.
We also realized that we had missed a step yesterday and had not included a policy to ensure that the menu start items were retrieved from the server - aah file redirection. To do this:
1. Create a shared folder on the server. We called our StartMenu. Check security settings. Ensure that users have read rights only.
2. Copy start menu items from one of your workstations to this shared folder. (Note: User the \\JSServer10\home$ command) You can find these items on the c:\drive, in the windows folder. However, you need to ensure that you look at the file options and choose show hidden files and folders.
3. The next step is then to create a GPO similar to the file redirection policy created yesterday. When setting the configuration for this policy navigate to the User Configuration -->Policies/Windows Settings -->folder redirection -->Start Menu. We chose the same settings as yesterday - Basic - redirect everyone's folders to the same local and entered JSServer10\Start Menu as our target (We have learned to use the browse feature versus typing to avoid time lost trying to figure our where the typo is). Close the policy. Enforce the policy. gpupdate /force. Login to a workstation and success is ours

Activity 2 Blackbridge Data services
At 11:00 a.m. the Blackbridge Data Center,newly set up in Lethbridge, was a very informative excursion. The infrastructure for the backup cooling and power was very interesting. We have just gone through the process of building with a new division office and NOC. Our backup data, heating and power systems pale in comaparison to the systems of Blackbridge, but at least we have backup systems designed. I would be interested to see the potential of a school division using this type of organization, especially as we develop more virtualized systems in order to support virtual desktops for devices.