I'd considered clustering, although not that particular configuration. Since
we're a VMWare shop that's easy enough to do with a FT VM. It may wind up
being the best choice available. Either way that provides redundancy and
failover, but not transparency.
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those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 3:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Print Drivers - v3 vs v4 With Server 2012r2 Print
Server and Windows 7 Clients
cluster?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj556311.aspx
Jean-Paul Natola
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Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Print Drivers - v3 vs v4 With Server 2012r2 Print
Server and Windows 7 Clients
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:31:24 +0000
Since we're on this topic, (and not to hijack the thread, it seems sort
related) :) , is there a print equivalent to DFS which would make the target
server transparent to the user? (Or is that what the 'point & print' is
supposed to do?
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 3:06 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Print Drivers - v3 vs v4 With Server 2012r2 Print
Server and Windows 7 Clients
For the server that I set up this weekend, I ended up using the v4/Class built
in drivers for the Brother MFC units. There was a Dell printer that did not
appear to have Class drivers, so I used a v3 driver for that. Testing appeared
to work over the weekend, but we will see if any problems crop up in the coming
days/weeks.
I'm still interested in hearing if anyone else has any positive or negative
experience with the v4/Class drivers (either built in or model specific
drivers) with Win7 clients (and Win8 too).
>From some reading I did, some Class drivers sometimes do not offer all of the
>functionality that the v3 drivers do, and so there may be cases where the v3
>drivers are needed:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/80e00b43-0945-40ff-be18-68b6f7f2ac5b/server-2012-ms-class-drivers-for-printing-no-envelope-feeders?forum=winserverprint
Xerox appears to have a nice matrix that indicates what specific Class driver
is supported by each of their units:
http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/Compatibility_Matrix/other/win8/en/Windows8_Matrix.pdf
However, Windows detected the appropriate Class driver for the few printers I
set up, so this was not neccessary.
-Aakash Shah
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L.
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:06 AM
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Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Print Drivers - v3 vs v4 With Server 2012r2 Print
Server and Windows 7 Clients
I'm also interested in what you find on this, even if there are no replies
here, as I will be replacing a WS08 R2 SP1 print server with WS12R2 this
summer. Same scenario, the server will be serving mostly Win7 clients for a
while, but also some 8.1.
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:44 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] Print Drivers - v3 vs v4 With Server 2012r2 Print Server
and Windows 7 Clients
I am setting up a new Server 2012r2 print server. All of the clients on the
network are currently Windows 7.
Is anyone using the newer v4 print drivers, or are people still installing the
legacy v3 drivers?
For anyone using the newer v4 print drivers, has anyone experienced any
problems with Windows 7 clients when using the Microsoft enhanced Point and
Print compatibility driver (this is what Windows 7 appears to use by default
when connecting to a printer share from a Server 2012r2 server that uses a v4
print driver)?
Thanks,
-Aakash Shah
