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We have an office with about 10 members and 4 printers. All of the printers are network printers with their own IP adress. All the users are part of the smae group in Active Diretory. The AD is running on a Windows Server 2008 (not R2). All the client machines are part of the same domain.

At the moment I go to every PC and install the printer drivers manually. Which options do i have to do this on the central server and how?

Thanks! Alex

AlexWerz
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Microsoft has written a comprehensive Step-by-step guide to setting up print services in a domain:
Technet: Print Management Step-by-Step Guide

In short:

  • Install the Print Services Role on the server you intend to use as a print server
  • Install the Print Management Feature component on any machine you'd like to manage print service from
  • Add your network printers to the print servers
  • Configure printer mappings using Group Policy preferences
  • Have fun printing away!

The Print Services role can coexist with AD DS, no problem, but I strongly suggest that you dedicate another server to network application services like Print, File and DHCP Services etc. and keep the Domain Controller "clean" of other roles.

Mathias R. Jessen
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    Dont forget to install the 'Group Policy Preferences Client Side Extensions' on any XP or Vista machines if you have them. – JS. Nov 28 '13 at 15:55