Updated/Advanced Print Spooler/Queue
Posted: 02-22-2008, 10:01 PM
Updated/Advanced Print Spooler/Queue
Feature Request:
A very simple feature that I would like to request to have added to the
print spooling service, is the option to automatically pause print jobs that
enter the queue, and have them remain paused until resumed by authorized
personnel.
Also, the current permissions on print queues are "Print", "Manage Printers"
and "Manage Documents." Currently, only users with the "Manage Printers"
permission are allowed to "Pause Printing." I would like to request that this
feature be managed instead by people with the "Manage Documents" permission.
Another possibility would be to create a new permission "Manage Queue", which
would allow people to manage only the queue and documents of the printer and
not be able to change any other settings, for example, Printer Pooling,
Printing Defaults.
Scenario:
I help manage multiple computer lab environments at a university. We employ
computer lab assistants to manage the printers in these labs. One of their
job functions is to maintain the print queue for these printers. Below are
the steps to our setup based on the current features.
Client machines map to a printer on a server running Server 2003.
Users print to the mapped printer.
The lab assistant keeps the queue paused at all times.
As jobs enter the queue, the lab assistant pauses each job individually.
Note that the queue and the job state are separate items.
As users request their print to be released, the queue and the job are
resumed.
Once the job is sent to the printer, the queue is paused once again and the
cycle repeats.
I would like to be able to set this up is as follows:
The queue is left unpaused.
As print jobs are spooled, they enter a paused state until resumed by a user
with "Manage Documents" (or possibly "Manage Queue") permissions, a Lab
Assistant for example.



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