Printer Redundancy (Slightly off topic)

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Ryan Hanisco

Hello,

I have used PrintMig for the longest time to make backups of printers and to
migrate them from server to server. I am looking for thoughts on ways to
manage printing when a server drops.

Is there a way that people are managing this or do we just accept that
printers have a single point of failure in the server on which they are
located?

PrintMig:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315983

Thanks.
 
Since people's network printers point to a specific server, it's hard to
imagine an easy alternative to getting the server back on line.... With a
backup of the printer information, it would seem to fix the server or
re-build another server with the same name and restore the printers would be
a relatively short period...

Although, I suppose you could have server running with all the printers
installed, create a batch file that would re-assign the printers, add it to
the AD logon script. then remove it after everyone has re-booted.... I have
a batch file that I use to create all the network printers on Interesting
experiment.... Could be useful in some scenarios....
 
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