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Managing Windows Server 2008 Print Services

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Configuring Printer Availability and Priority
This concept is best described by example. Suppose that a printer is to be made available to members of an engineering group only during the office hours. That same printer, however, is to always be available to the management group. Similarly, any print jobs belonging to the management group must be given a higher priority than those of the engineering group. To achieve this objective, two logical printers assigned to the sdame physical print device will be created, one for engineering and one for management. The availability of the engineering logical printer will be restricted to office hours and given a low priority. The management logical printer will always be available and will be given a high priority. Permissions on the logical printers will then be configured such that the engineering team is denied access to the management printer.
Using this approach a single physical print device can be used by muAvailability and priority is configured from the printer property panel. To access these settings, launch Print Management and navigate to the required printer in the left pane. Right click on the printer, select ''Properties'' and then choose the ''Advanced'' tab. Once selected, the property panel will appear as follows:  [[Image:windows_server_2008_scheduling_and_priority.jpg|Configuring printer priority and availability]]