Copy All Printer Drivers from 1 Print Server to another

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Jeremy Sun

Is there a way to do so? I don't want to reinstall the 20 different drivers
in the new printer server. Even if I reinstall all drivers to my new print
server there is no gurantee that the version of these drivers will be
exactly the same.

I can't simply setup the drivers by mapping the network print shares because
some of the drivers are actually for windows 98. I want these copied as
well.

Any help?

Thanks in advance.

Jeremy
 
Randy:

How sure are you that the printer drivers are also backed up and then
restored from the cab? I wasn't sure if they too were backed up.

Thanks!

Steve
 
Very simple - I've done exactly that - used PrintMig.exe on the "old"
server, copied the large Cab file to the new server, re-ran PrintMig.exe on
the new server, pointed it to the Cab file, everything, drivers, settings,
and security permissions were restored to the new server. Then I deleted
the printers I didn't need anymore. Way cool, way easy, highly recommended.

Randy
 
I haven't used this yet so please forgive my ignorance. Will the end users
have to re-add the printers again? Thanks
 
It is good that I have marked this thread. I have totally forgotten about
it.

Anyway, thanks for Randy suggestion. That was what I did exactly.

PrintMig v3 which I downloaded from the microsoft is a great great tool. In
less than 5 clicks and you get a 30MB files. Make a copy and another 5
clicks all printer shares, network port. I don't remember if the security
settings go to the save or not but it was surely one pleasent experience.

There is only 1 problem. If you pick a save file path that has space in it,
the packing / unpacking will stop some where. But that is a small problem
to fix.

To answer that question, if your new servers have the same name with the old
one, no your clients do not need to make any changes. However if you have
change the server name, then you need to make changes to all the clients.

Cheers,
Jeremy
 
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