Don't know about "large" orgs, but my approach would be to 1) Set up new print queues with the names you want, pointing to the machines at their current IP addresses. Don't delete the old queues yet.
2) Get everybody switched over to the new print queues. 3) Set up DHCP reservations for the MACs of the printers. 4) Switch the printers to DHCP and reboot them, or just change their addresses to static equivalents of the of the reservations and at the same time update the print queues to the new addresses. 5) Delete the old print queues. BTW - I name print queues according to a definite format: DepartmentName-PrinterModel-JackNumber-LastTwoOctetsOfIPAddress - this yields a name such as Finance-Dell1300n-S138-1248. Kurt On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:20, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have taken over yet another site of around 50 users, all on XP > workstations. They have a 2003 server that acts as a DC, and file and print > server. > > They have around 20 odd network printers scattered over 4 floors, that have > all sorts of names and network addresses. > > I want to rename them logically and give them all static addresses in order > of their name, so Laser 1 would be 192.168.100.201 for example. > > Normally we would just rename the printer, change the IP address of it and > then manually remove the old queue from the relavant PC's and reattch the > new queue by connecting to \\server\laser1. > > I feel there must be a better and less disruptive way of doing this,... what > do you guys do when managing large organisations? > > -- > Gavin Wilby, > Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby > GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
