Gavin, I don't know if this will help you but we did some testing with this on Windows 7, Windows 8 and it worked.
This is an old program by "Foxware Design" called PrintMig (not the MS version) It will switch an existing user's printer(s) from one server to another and it can use another name. You provide an .ini file with the mapping from the old to the new and have the user run it. Can be done through SCCM, Login script, etc. or on a user by user basis. http://windows.softwareweb.com/printmig-3.15-1MF.html Summary: The Printer Migration Manager for Windows 95/98/NT allows you to automatically remap a users current set of network printers to different network printer queues. PrintMig will work on Novell NetWare or Microsoft Windows NT Networks. By using a mapping file, you control what printers are migrated. All events are logged so you know exactly what was updated on the client. Don K -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Wilby Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:20 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Printer managment Hi, Normally Id be using GPP all the way, but the issue I have (that’s not of my making) is: We have two print servers. One is a 2003 server, one a 2012. The 2003 is being retired the 2012 is to take over its role. All printers in the building, which is about 100 odd, across 7 floors and close to 200 users are replicated across both servers. There is also the problem that lots of users have old ghost printers, as well as the fact that I need to get them. So if I have a user with two printers oldps\print1 and oldps\print2 I need them to have newps\print1 and newps\print2. Then imagine that with users that have 7 or more print queues etc. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: 28 August 2014 16:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to be able to point something at any PC on my domain and see > what printers it has installed on it. You don't describe your environment, but any Windows that's reasonably recent will have useful tools in C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\ The "prnmngr.vbs" script in particular will list printer objects, and allow you to add/remove them. There is an "-s" switch which lets you run it against remote print servers ("server" meaning "computer" in this case). This is generally only useful for printers with a machine-local port connection (but that includes IP ports). > This should include Network printers, local printers and PDF writers etc. Network printer connections (via Windows shares) are a property of the user, not the system. > Id like the ability to remove printers (say ghosted ones), and also > manually add printers off the network. You're prolly better off using Group Policy Preferences to push printers to users. But the above-mentioned scripts can do it, too. -- Ben SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
