If you are interested, I will dig the script out an post it for you. I am sorry but I do not understand what you are asking. If you can rephrase it, I will take a crack at answering it. Will users still be able to connect to printers from the old server once the migration is complete. Ian thanks for the response. The tool worked except, I cant all the printers to migrate to the new server.
All of the drivers are there but the printers on an old print server are still being stubborn. Click the Start button and the scanning process begins, and once the subnet has been scanned the information gathered will be processed, printer drivers will be installed, print queues will be created, and the printers will be shared. The only time you might have to manually intervene is to provide a driver for a printer if Windows doesn't have one for that particular brand of printer.
Alternatively, let's say you already have your network printers set up and installed, as I do, and that there are two other Windows Server machines currently functioning as print servers, namely BOX and BOX Let's add BOX to the list of print servers and see what happens. Figure 5: Adding a print server to Print Management. Figure 6: BOX is added to the list of print servers.
By right-clicking on any of these printers you can perform tasks such as the following:. There's also an option to deploy printers using Group Policy, but we'll cover that one in a future article.
Let's go ahead and add BOX as a print server to make the next topic more interesting:. Figure 7: Three print servers listed in Print Management. Say you want to get a quick picture of what's happening with different printers on your network.
For example, say you want to know which printers currently have jobs in their print queues. Using the Print Filters feature of Print Management, this is easy—a lot easier than browsing all the print queues of all your network printers! Figure 8: Using the default printer filter named Printers With Jobs.
Note that both Accounting Printer 1 and Sales Printer 2 have one job in their queue, and that the Accounting printer is ready but the Sales printer is in an error state. Opening the printer queue for the Sales printer lets you see the details of what's in the queue:. Figure 9: Test page is stuck in the queue for Sales Printer 2. That doesn't tell us what's wrong with the printer of course—maybe that could be a feature request for R3!
Anyway, we could also quickly find out which printers are not ready by selecting the Printers Not Ready node, another default printer filter:.
Figure Using the default printer filter named Printers Not Ready. As expected, Sales Printer 2 shows up here as the only printer currently not ready on our network.
The third default printer filter is named All Printers and this displays all the printers currently on your network we have three on BOX and two on BOX which makes five in total. What's even more useful is that you can create your own custom printer filters to display whatever you want to know about printers on your network.
Let's see how this works. This starts the New Printer Filter Wizard, and let's say we want to create a filter that will display all printers on our network that are to be used for color printing only, and also indicate the number there are of such printers in parentheses beside the filter name.
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