Upgrading server hardware and want to move printers over

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We are upgrading the hardware for our print servers and I would like to have
it happen seamlessly. What i had planned on doing is renaming the new
server as the same name as the old. Will the workstations connecting to
printers be able to print without having to reconnect the network printers?
 
Just to clarify. I do have the printmig utility and had
planned on using it to pass the print queues from the old
server to the new server.
 
This generally works quite well. The issues I have experienced is a delay
as the Domain replicates the new DNS info to the network. The best time to
rename the server is after hours. When doing this I like to either rename
the Server to ServerBAK or release the IP address in order to disassociate
the name from the IP before renaming the new server to Server.



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