Pick one printer to start with. Make sure that the driver you have installed for that printer on the 2003 server is ALSO compatible with 2008. Export it/import it. See if that works.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Problems importing printers from Win2003 to Win2008 I'm having a problem migrating print servers. Current print server is PRN002 (Win2003 STD, 32bit - a VM), which has 73 printers defined. All printers have 32bit drivers; a few have 64bit drivers, as well. I want to replace that VM with a Win2008 R2 STD VM. So I created a new Win2008 R2 VM, called PRN003, and told it to migrate printers. I added PRN002 as a print server to the Printer Management console. I then exported all the printers from PRN002. Since I wanted to test how it would work, I told PRN003 to import all printers from the file just created from PRN002, but *not* to list them in the directory. I wanted my application to test printing to the Win2008 print server, before I turned it loose in production. After importing, I had dozens of errors - "0x80070705. The printer driver is unknown". In fact, no printers came over. The Print Manager console shows no printers, but does show a number of print drivers (30) instead of the 36 that it shows for PRN002. So I have some drivers, but no printers/printer queues. So what did I do wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
