Printer Properties Pro - Printer Migrator: User Guide
Installing and Starting Printer Installer
Quick Steps to: -Push a Active Directory Printer to an end user
-Push a Direct IP Printer to an end user
Menu Options
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Additional Features
Installing and Starting Printer Installer
Printer Installer is included in the default download of the PPP suite. The download comes with a default demo license for 3 printers. If you have a license for Printer Installer simply copy the license into the same directory where you extract PPP and it will be found by the application.
After downloading and extracting PPP, run PPPAdmin.exe to start Printer Installer. Select Printer Installer from the following menu.
The Printer Installer application will open, showing you three different tree browsing options; Active Directory, IP Address Ranges, and Direct IP Printers.
Quick Steps to push an Active Directory printer to a user by group membership
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Install and start Printer Installer.
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Click the + sign in front of "Entire Active Directory" and browse to the printer that you want to push out.
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Select the "Associations" tab. Use one of the following buttons at the bottom of the screen, Add AD Object, Add AD Container, Add IP Range, to add the test group to this printer, then click apply.
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Now run the PPPClient.exe on an end users workstation and the printer will be installed if the user is a member of the test group.
Quick Steps to push a Direct IP Printer to a user by IP Address Range
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Install and start Printer Installer.
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Right click on the "IP Address Ranges" node, and select "New IP Address Range". Fill in an ip address range that includes your test users ip address.
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Right click on the "Direct IP Printers" node and select "New Direct IP Printer". Fill in the name and IP address of the printer then select the Drivers tab and select the appropriate driver*** for the associated operating systems. Then select Associations tab and click the "Add IP Range" button at the bottom of the screen. Select the appropriate IP Address Range object and click apply.
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Now run the PPPClient.exe on an end users workstation and the printer will be installed if the user is a member of the test group.
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If the appropriate driver is not available to select, click on the "Manage Driver Repository" button and add the desired driver to the driver repository. It will then be available for selection in the Driver tab.
Menu Options
View Menu
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Set Default Context
By selecting this option when on an Active directory container the program will open to this location in the browser tree from that point on.
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Refresh Active Directory Printers
Used to refresh the Active Directory printer listing, particularly useful after new printer have been published to AD.
PPPClient_Options - Settings
Global Tab
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Show Client Window on Workstations
Shows the log window to the end-user when running PPPClient. This is used mainly for troubleshooting.
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Use Short Printer Names When Possible
This setting is for Migrator / Mover / Converter Only. If checked the printers will be installed on the end user machine in "short" format instead of the full server name.
With it checked: printer on server
Without it checked: printer on server.subdomain.domain.com
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Start-up Delay
Time that PPPClient waits after being started before it begins to configure printers and make other changes.
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Wait Time After Printer Changes
When a new printer is installed, PPPClient will notice the change and run again to configure the new printer. Adjust this time as necessary to allow the printer to finish installing completely before PPPClient attempts to make changes.
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Check for Changes
PPPClient will check for changes to the configuration files and will apply the new changes. For example: If you have the it set to 10 minutes and the change "use short printer names when possible" setting, PPPClient will know the change has been made in 10 minutes and start using short names.
* The default of "0" means the PPPClient will run at login and exit.
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Distribute PPPClient Package
Use this tool to send PPPClient and all necessary files to remote locations so they can run the client from a local server.
Installer Tab
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Pause Clients from installing/removing Printers at this time
Makes the client stop installing / removing printers associated to the Printer Installer program. This turns off the Printer Installer portion of the PPPClient.exe
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All Clients Refresh AD information when checking for change to configuration files.
By default PPPClient.exe will check the configuration files of Printer Installer every 10 minutes. So if you as the admin created a new association to a printer it would propogate to the end users within 10 minutes. This causes the PPPClient.exe to request a list of the computer and user group memberships from AD every 10 minutes causing some traffic on the network. You can disable this feature or increase the check time in the global tab.
Profiler, Mover, Migrator, Converter, Tabs - See associated product user guide for explanation of option in these tabs.
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Green Check - Printer is configured with an association and is using a license
Find more information at the Printer Installer Knowledgebase.
