Day 8 Blog Post

Day 8 Blog Post

Today’s assignment consisted of installing and configuring print services on our Windows 2008 server and our Windows work station. The printer we were installing was the Xerox Phaser 4510. Lyle explained the procedure at the beginning of the class.

The first thing to do was to locate the correct printer driver on the internet. We used google to do a search. The search returned many possibilities and we had to be careful to select the right driver. The driver we were looking for was the Xerox postscript driver which is located at this link.

http://www.support.xerox.com/support/phaser-4510/downloads/enus.html?operatingSystem=wins2008&fileLanguage=en

Once we had downloaded the driver we went to server manager and installed print management. We had to use print management to install the driver in order to set up print services on our server. This was the first step in being able to print.

Next we opened print management and created a standard TCP/IP port. The IP address of our printer was 192.168.24.51. This is a static IP address that is assigned to the printer.

Next we clicked on ``have disk`` this is where we installed the driver we had just finished downloading.

Once this was complete we were able to print a test page from our server. Next it was time to push the policy out to our workstations. This was accomplished from server manager. We had to go to users and computers, then domain controllers. We were able to apply the policy to our workstations.

Finally, after rebooting the workstation we were able to print from our workstation. Although this procedure worked for us I think it is worth noting that the work we are doing is difficult to document because of the nature of the work. Unexpected problems arise and how you deal with those problems will affect the process.

The rest of the morning was spent touring Blackbridge Data Center. This was an interesting tour even though it was a bit complex. I understand the concept of data storage. Companies who have data to store will take advantage of the Blackbridge`s services. Blackbridge guarantees that their data is safe and secure. Blackbridge uses a variety of processes and equipment to accomplish this task. It is mind boggling when one considers the electricity, wires, cooling system, physical building and security.