what’s new in windows 7 printing May 25, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Hardware and Applications, Uncategorized.Tags: printing
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I’ve been training for over 10 years on the features of Windows printing and after awhile, the lessons become B-O-R-I-N-G. Nothing really has changed since Windows 95. A tweak here and there, but printing is printing and Windows’ print environment has been mainly static. Till now!
Windows 7 supports some new features in print management like the totally cool location-aware printing. It also supports XPS (which was actually introduced in Vista) which means faster-raster, or as MS puts it, “near engine speeds.”
Here’s a summary of changes from Technet along with some interesting links for more information:
What are the new and changed features?
Print Management provides the following new and improved features to Windows printing:
- Print migration enhancements
- Printer driver isolation
- Print Management snap-in improvements
- Client-Side Rendering (CSR) performance improvements
- XML Paper Specification (XPS) print path improvements
- Location-aware printing
program compatibility assistant February 18, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Hardware and Applications, MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7 (70-686), MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680).Tags: 70-680, 70-682, 70-685, 70-686, appcompat, program compatibility assistant
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The PCA is an appcompat feature built into Windows 7 and Server 2008. It’ll spring up on you, alerting you of known compatibility issues, and even suggest a course of action.
PCA on Server 2008 R2
