Re: Print Server Migration

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you can script this easily with a .bat or .vbs file

type "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?" at a command window to get the
syntax for .bat or here is the .vbs way

set oNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
oNet.RemovePrinterConnection "\\server\share"
oNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\share"

make sure the server and share part is in quotes (just incase this post
takes them out as if it were a link).

Philip Nunn

"jwilliams3034" <jwilliams3034@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:82E3DCFD-73D5-4925-B968-461EBC9B19A6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am trying to consolidate our print servers as well as take some older
servers offline. These servers are all either Windows 2000 or 2003. I
can
use the Print Migration tool to move the printers, drivers, queues, etc.
to
the new server but my problem is with the clients.

Is there a way to somehow automatically redirect printers setup on client
computer to the new print server? Because I am consolidating (and we have
a
new server naming scheme) I cannot name the new server the same as the
old.
I have tried modifying DNS to "trick" the clients to going to the new
server,
but I get a "could not authenticate" error.

We have many client computers that this will affect and it would be a HUGE
task to try to reinstall the printers manually. Is there any easy way to
automate this somehow? You would think that MS puts out a migration tool
that they would find a way to migrate the client settings as well...

Thank you for your help.

Jason


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