Migrating from single node print server to active/active print cluster
- From: "Techhead" <jorgenson.b@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Oct 2006 10:14:24 -0700
I have a single node non-clustered print server called "PSERVER1" I
have about 120 printers shared out and co-workers attach to the
printers as \\PSERVER1\<share_name>. I am setting up an active/active
print cluster using Windows 2003 R2 to get more printing management.
For seamless integration into this new cluster I plan on creating a
virtual name on one of my active cluster nodes and call it PSERVER1.
1. First I will change the TTL in DNS for the record of PSERVER1 to
about 10 seconds.
2. Then backup the printer configs on the single-node printer server
using the printmig program from Microsoft
3. Restore the print config to the new cluster node.
4. Turn off the original print server
5. Create the PSERVER1 network name on the active cluster node and make
sure it is registered in DNS with the new cluster resource IP address
6. After 10-30 seconds or so, clients should be pulling the new
PSERVER1 record with the new IP address from DNS
7. Change the TTL back to default
8. Eveybody should be printing like normal again.
Does this seem like the proper method for printer migration? Is there a
better alternative?
Thanks,
Brian
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