On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Pick one printer to start with.
OK ... > 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. I've tried importing drivers from 4 different print servers now, and NONE of them worked. I would get some drivers imported, but no printers/print queues. They always complained that they couldn't find a driver ... I will keep pounding at it ... I will try importing from a test machine with only one printer. ... Nope; still didn't work. I have a Xerox Pro 123. I installed twice, on a Win2003 32bit test source; once using the PS driver (which does not list Win2008 as a supported OS, but which I need, since I need to be able to include an account code with every print job), and the PPD driver (which *does* list Win2003 and Win2008 [both 32bit and 64bit] as supported) on the Win2003 32bit source. Once again, the drivers imported; the printers themselves did not. Granted, the PPD driver did not say Win2008 R2 64 bit as a supported OS, but still ... So from what I see, the Win2008 R2 printer migration feature is a total failure so far. :-( It can't seem to import any printer definitions at all, or at least none of the 7 dozen printers I have tried to import. What's the point of migrating, if it can't read any existing printer definitions and drivers? I might as well just install all the printers from scratch, and add 32bit drivers to each one, since just about every client will be 32bit, for the foreseeable future. I *must* be missing some simple concept, but I can't for the life of me figure out what .... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
