You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company contains two Windows Server 2008 computers and two identical print devices.
Which of the following options would you choose to manage the print queue from a central location and balance the load of print jobs on both the printers?
A.
Install and share a printer on one of the servers and enable printer pooling.
B.
Add both the servers to a Network Load Balancing cluster and install a printer on each node of the cluster.
C.
Install and share a printer on each server and then install the printers on the client computers using Print Manager
D.
Install the Terminal Services server role on both servers and configure Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker).
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To plan a print services infrastructure that would allow you to manage the print queue from a central location and balance the load of print jobs on both the printers, you need to install and share a printer on contosoServer1 and enable printer pooling.
Printer pooling allows you to print to several printers at once. If you have a large print job you can submit it to the pool and the operating system will balance the load among the printers.
This feature allows network administrators to configure and manage several printers as one, a process that can simplify printer administration. In addition, printer pooling provides some load-balancing. That’s because Windows 2000 Server directs print jobs to the connected printers based on jobs pending at each printer. A printer pool contains multiple printers, all configured as a single printer instance.Reference: Configure printer pooling to simplify printer management in Windows 2000 http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5727870.html