You are the systems administrator for your company. The network contains a Windows Essential Business Server 2008 environment. The network consists of five subnets in a single Active Directory domain. Each subnet contains three printers that are used by network users. You want to enable printer location tracking so that users can determine the physical location of each printer before sending a print job.
Which group policy setting should you configure for this purpose?
A.
Allow printers to be published
B.
Pre-populate printer search location text
C.
Printer browsing
D.
Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory
Explanation:
You should configure the Pre-populate printer search location text group policy setting. In network environments, users need to know the physical location of hardware devices, such as printers, to know which device is located nearest to them. You can configure the printer location tracking feature in Windows Server 2008 to help user find printers by location. The printer location tracking feature stores the actual location of printers in Active Directory. When you enable this feature, the location string for each printer is automatically displayed. To enable this feature, you should enable the Pre-populate printer search location text policy setting. You can use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) to configure this policy. The Pre-populate printer search location text policy setting fills the location field for the printer by using the value specified in the Location tab of the Subnet Properties dialog box. Therefore, you must ensure that you also configure the Location tab in the Subnet properties dialog box. To do this, you can use the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in.You should not configure the Allow printers to be published group policy setting because this policy setting cannot be used to enable the printer location tracking feature. The Allow printers to be published policy setting determines whether shared printers attached to a computer can be published in Active Directory.
You should not configure the Printer browsing group policy setting because this policy setting cannot be used to enable the printer location tracking feature. The Printer browsing policy setting enables the print spooler to announce shared printers to the print browse master servers, which causes shared printers to appear in the domain list in the Browse for Printer dialog box in the Add Printer Wizard.
You should not configure the Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory group policy setting because this policy setting cannot be used to enable the printer location tracking feature. The Automatically publish new printers in Active Directory policy setting determines whether the Add Printer Wizard automatically publishes the shared printers attached to a computer in Active Directory.