I started off using that...but I've got thousands of printers and queues, it seems to top out around 125 devices.
I wrote a mondo powershell script instead to move the printers and ports; and a vbscript to update the users printers at login. I also wrote a SEPARATE script that gave me the drivers that I needed to download and install. Much manual effort, unfortunately, but people are surprisingly picky about their printers. sheesh! (I'm working with a metropolitan hospital in this case.) ________________________________ From: Kenny Morris (AL) [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:34 AM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print Server Migration Microsoft Print Migrator – it’s a free download… Haven’t tried it on a 2008 server, but moving from 2000 to 2003 works very well… I also wrote a script to run at login for the users that will auto change the servername for users…. ________________________________ From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:31 AM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: Print Server Migration Hi, I am not sure if there is an *easy* way to do this or not but I figured it was worth asking. I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 system that is our print server. I want to decommission the box as it is older and set it all up on a new Win2008 server machine. Is there an easier way to move all the installed, shared printers than documenting all the information and manually installing them on the new machine, sharing them, and then telling everyone (300+ clients) to delete their installed printers and connect to the new shares? Thanks! Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 517-884-5469 ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ NOTICE: You cannot bind, alter or cancel coverage without speaking to an authorized representative of CRC/Southern Cross. Coverage cannot be bound without written confirmation from an authorized representative of CRC/Southern Cross. This email and any files transmitted with it are not encrypted and may contain privileged or other confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or entity, or believe that you may have received this email in error, please reply to the sender indicating that fact and delete the copy you received. In addition, you should not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use this information. Thank you. <http://www.policypatrol.com/> ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
