Server 2003 to 2008 Upgrade Question Regarding Printers

[Guest Daniel P. Cayea]

I just did an in place upgrade of 2003 Standard 64 Bit to 2008 64 Bit. On

2003 I had about 15 printer shares. After the upgrade I have zero printer

shares. Is this by design or a bug? Why would an in place upgrade eat

printer shares and is there any way to recover them other than to rebuild

them?

 

Thanks,

Dan

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Server 2003 to 2008 Upgrade Question Regarding Printers

 

Hello Daniel,

 

Hopefully you have a backup and can start new or you have to create them

all new. So it is by design, no bug.

 

All existing printers and printer drivers are deleted when you upgrade to

Windows Server 2008, so it is important to back up all printers before beginning

the upgrade. To do so, use the Print Management MMC snap-in on a computer

running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

 

Here is the how to migrate print servers to 2008:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722360.aspx

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> I just did an in place upgrade of 2003 Standard 64 Bit to 2008 64 Bit.

> On 2003 I had about 15 printer shares. After the upgrade I have zero

> printer shares. Is this by design or a bug? Why would an in place

> upgrade eat printer shares and is there any way to recover them other

> than to rebuild them?

>

> Thanks,

> Dan

[Guest Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Re: Server 2003 to 2008 Upgrade Question Regarding Printers

 

Local printers are not migrated in the "upgrade" process.

 

I'll assume the print server role was not installed

 

If it was you should have gotten a dialog stating to backup the printers.

 

 

There is a $WINDOWS.~Q hidden folder on the system drive. I was able to

load the hive from this information but I would definitely get the most

recent Server 2008 x86 and x64 print drivers for your devices.

 

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Alan Morris

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"Daniel P. Cayea" <lyonadmiral@nospam.postalias> wrote in message

news:DF9FF7E4-8FA9-4EA6-871F-914ECFAEFE2F@microsoft.com...

>I just did an in place upgrade of 2003 Standard 64 Bit to 2008 64 Bit. On

> 2003 I had about 15 printer shares. After the upgrade I have zero printer

> shares. Is this by design or a bug? Why would an in place upgrade eat

> printer shares and is there any way to recover them other than to rebuild

> them?

>

> Thanks,

> Dan