Setting up printers in Windows Server 2008
For the last few months, I've been running Windows Server 2008 as my desktop operating system. It's been rock solid, despite not being designed for laptop hardware and even if I can't hibernate (because I have Hyper-V enabled).
Earlier today I needed to set up a network printer but I was getting an access denied message when I tried to create the TCP/IP port using the standard Printers applet in Control Panel (even though my domain account is a member of the local Administrators group). The workaround that I found was to use the Print Management snap-in to add the port and then add the printer. This does require the Print Services role to be enabled (or remote server administration tools to be present) but it also provides a much better interface for the task.