Changing the Spooler directory

During the printing process, the Windows printer spooler in Windows uses an on-disk folder to hold the temporary files the printing process creates. If multiple users each print large documents to a single printer, the print queue, and the temporary folder can get quite large. By default, this folder is C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS. You may wish to change the default spool folder on a separate physical storage device for a busy print server with multiple printers. Also, consider ensuring the volume is fail-safe (e.g., using hardware or software RAID).

Getting ready

Before running this recipe, you must set up the PSRV printer server (you did this in the Installing and sharing printers recipe). Additionally, you need SalesPrinter1 created.

How to do it...

1. Loading the System.Printing namespace and classes

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Printing

1. Defining the required permissions

$Permissions =
   [System.Printing.PrintSystemDesiredAccess...