Printers, AD, and DHCP

[Malaise]

Looking for some guidance on this issue. We have a number of printers
currently using static IPs to connect to the network. We set the
queues up on a print server, which our users connect to print. There
is a planned migration to move the internal network to a VLAN-type
configuration, which means a lot of administration in editing print
queues, etc.

The question was asked that since the printers have the ability to pull
an IP, is it possible to configure the printers for DHCP, create a pool
of IPs to assign to them, then configure AD to find those printers to
reduce administration time in editing print queues. I attempted to
find documentation on this, but could only find bits and pieces that
didn't always fit together. If someone could provide some assistance
or point me to some documentation that would help, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Jorge_de_Almeida_Pinto]

Looking for some guidance on this issue. We have a number of
printers
currently using static IPs to connect to the network. We set
the
queues up on a print server, which our users connect to print.
There
is a planned migration to move the internal network to a
VLAN-type
configuration, which means a lot of administration in editing
print
queues, etc.

The question was asked that since the printers have the
ability to pull
an IP, is it possible to configure the printers for DHCP,
create a pool
of IPs to assign to them, then configure AD to find those
printers to
reduce administration time in editing print queues. I
attempted to
find documentation on this, but could only find bits and
pieces that
didn't always fit together. If someone could provide some
assistance
or point me to some documentation that would help, I'd
appreciate it.

you could that by creating DHCP reservation for the printers. You need
the MAC address for each printer device. If you have multiple DHCP
servers that can service the printers, make sure the DHCP reservations
are created on those DHCP servers

 

[Malaise]

Thanks - we'll try that out and see if it works for us. I'll post if
that does the trick.

 

[Malaise]

Pushing out the IPs using the above method seems to work, now the only
issue is to update the AD. Our print queues use the IP to map to the
printer (creating a local printer connection using the TCP/IP Port
option). Is there a better way to create the queues in the directory,
or are we stuck updating 100+ queues when the ip change occurs?