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I've found some ways of scripting printer creation on Windows print servers using WMI, but it looks like WMI doesn't support clustered print servers (or clustered servers at all).
The scripts in C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts are useless because, they are not cluster-aware and end up creating the printers on the active cluster node (just like using WMI).
The only tool I found that was able to work on a clustered print server is printui.exe (shortcut for rundll32 printui.dll, PrintUIEntry), but it can't create TCP printing ports: it can only add printers if the port already exists.
How can I completely script printer creation (including TCP printing ports!) on a clustered Windows Server 2008 R2 print server?
Best Answer
I don't know if this will work in a cluster enviornment, but there is the good old printbrm.exe tool. It creates what is essentially a cab file full of XML that can backup and restore printer setups between servers. This includes the dreaded TCP/IP ports. This might let you do a simple backup, modify the XML to add what you need and let you do a restore to your cluster. (Again, not sure if this is cluster aware).
Printbrm example: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722360.aspx
rename the file to .cab and extract to disk...
The port file is brmports.xml. I suggest exporting out a printer or two to see how it is "supposed" to look.