Hi,
I am currently rolling out a new server installation for a local school where I volunteer as a sysadmin.
We have a networked photocopier in the school which is used for printing from all computers in the school.
On our old computer setup, the print driver would be installed on each individual PC, then in the Printer Properties, we would select the option for the printer to print the document to a specified user box e.g. User Box: 10
This means that any time the user prints a document, it would be sent to the printer but stored in a user box until such time as someone selects the user box at the printer and clicks on print (a simple safeguard to stop prints being mixed up)
As I am now deploying a brand new setup with Server 2008 R2 and upgraded all the PC's to Windows 7, I am now looking to find an easier way of managing the printing. The administration overhead on the old system for printing is a nightmare such as creating user boxes, then going to the pc in question and changing the user box at driver level, etc etc
So far I have managed to install the print server role on Server 2008 and add my network printer to the server. The result at present is, a user wishes to print, the document is sent to the print server and printed out in real-time on the printer
What I am trying to achieve is some sort of mechanism (either via GPO or via the print server itself) that will allow me to put these prints into user boxes so that they can be printed at a later time
For example currently, if a user (user@contoso.com) prints a document on a local PC, it will go to print server as user@contoso.com and print out
The desired event is, if a user (user@contoso.com) prints a document on a local PC, it should print to a user box by specifying a driver parameter (e.g. user@contoso.com = UserBox:10
Im not sure if its easy to set different driver parameters using GPO for different users, for example, user1 has box10 set, while, user 4 has box40 set. This would work for me if its possible.
Any help is much appreciated.
Martin
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