Printing from iPad to Windows Printers

For my reference (and yours if for some reason you can’t find the same articles I found), here’s how you print from an iPad to a shared Windows Printer on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine using Apple AirPrint and some cmd magic.:

  1. Install the app from this page
  2. Do the stuff at this page, sans the iTunes stuff
  3. Open the 2008 R2 firewall Control Panel
  4. Right click on Bonjour Service, click Advanced tab, and check all three checkmarks (Domain, Public, Private)
  5. Create a rule for the AirPrint.exe file from step 2 to match the Bonjour Service on step 4.
  6. Print from your iPad
  7. Profit.

Inanis + Droid = SCREE

I got a Motorola DROID phone to replace the old Motorola Q9c I had.

If the iPhone is the Jesus Phone, then this thing is the God Phone. It is simply phenomenal.

I won’t go into detail of the phone itself here, because world+dog has already done that, but I will say this: The phone is easier to use with Microsoft Exchange features than my previous Microsoft Windows Mobile phone.

I’ll give you a minute to let that sink in.

Yeah. I said it. You read it. Wanna fight about it?

Play Time

Grabbed an unofficial/official RTM build of Windows 7 – running in 30 day trial mode, just to play with the OS. No key or cracks installed. I will definately be replacing this OS with a real TechNet version in less than a week, but I wanted to play with it NOW.

Piccy for your enjoyment.

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