I have setup and managed 2003 and 2008 print servers in a research environment and found that the 2008 were much more stable and would reliably allow both XP, Vista and 7 to connect and run. They were setup very generically with nothing fancy being done. Vista and 7 always had the printers assigned and ready by the first run if I setup the GPO which was much easier done in 2008 as well. XP would connect but the user had to find the print server first. I believe there was a patch that fixed this issue but at the time XP was either being fased out or were where they would sit until replaced.
Jon On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]>wrote: > I hate to toss such a generic question out there but I have zero experience > in this area. We are putting up a new building this summer, replacing our > larges which would be the High School. We have always just used network > attached printers and let the users run free. Less hassle for us but > probably not the most cost effective way to do it. So I am thinking 2008 R2 > print server and some sort of usage monitoring software. > > Any ideas on suggested software to monitor all of this, or any ideas on a > better design? > > ~ 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/> ~
