Enabling Branch Office Direct Printing

Branch Office Direct Printing (BODP) is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 that is designed to reduce print traffic across your WAN. With BODP, a user in a branch office sends the print job directly to a branch office printer. There is no need to send the print job from the client to a centralized print server and then back to the branch office printer. Print jobs can be quite large, so this can improve printing and reduce print job-related WAN traffic.

Getting ready

This recipe needs a second shared printer, SGBRCP1, set up as follows:

    $PtrName = 'Sales_Branch_Color'
    $PtrIP = '172.16.1.61'
    $DrvName = 'NEC Color MultiWriter Class Driver'
    Add-PrinterPort -Name $ptrname `
                    -PrinterHostAddress $PtrIP
    Add-PrinterDriver -Name $DrvName `
                      -PrinterEnvironment 'Windows x64'
    Add-Printer -Name 'SGBRCP1' `
                -DriverName $DrvName `
                -Portname 'Sales_Branch_Color'...