Adding and removing printer security
Printer security allows for access to a printer to be restricted or for management of the printer to be delegated. By restricting access, only specific users or groups can be allowed to view or print to a specific printer. By delegating access, management of the printer can be provied to local administrators or power users to manage the printer and print jobs.
For applying permissions to a shared printer on a print server, Server 2012 uses the Security Definition Description Language (SDDL). The SDDL allows an administrator to define or review the Access Control Lists (ACL) placed on an object in the form of a string, instead of different objects.
In this recipe we will
update the security for a previously created printer. In this situation we will be restricting access to the printer to only the Domain Administrators and the users included in a specific security group. The Domain Admins will retain Full Control of the printer object, while the security...
