You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers on the network run Windows Server 2008. The network contains two Windows Server 2008 computers called contosoServer1 and contosoServer2 and two identical print devices.
Which of the following options would you choose to plan a print services infrastructure that would allow you to manage the print queue from a central location and make the print services available, even if one of the print devices fails?
A.
Install and share a printer on contosoServer1 and enable printer pooling.
B.
Create a Network Load Balancing cluster and add contosoServer1 and contosoServer2 to it and then install a printer on each node of the cluster.
C.
Install and share one of the printer on contosoServer1 and the other printer on contosoServer2. Use Print Manager to install the printers on the client computers.
D.
Install the Terminal Services server role on both servers. 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 make the print services available, even if one of the print devices fails, 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