Guest KA Kueh Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Dear all, I have setup shared printers in Windows 2003 AD server (primary) and have users now in production environment. Is there a way to move the shared printer to secondary AD server without repointing the client machine. Thank you. Regards, Kueh.
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Windows 2003 Print Server Hello, You may use a vbscript a logon that change the printer server for connected printers automatically. Your users won't notice -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com "KA Kueh" <kka@ksm.com.my> wrote in message news:euVpS864HHA.1992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Dear all, > > I have setup shared printers in Windows 2003 AD server (primary) and have > users now in production environment. Is there a way to move the shared > printer to secondary AD server without repointing the client machine. > Thank you. > > Regards, > Kueh. >
Guest NW Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Windows 2003 Print Server If you have Server 2003 R2, then you might consider using group policy to deploy printers, you won't have to touch the clients. Otherwise, from what I know, running a script on the clients login or startup script may be the best bet. For example, here's a command that adds a printer shared from the server1... rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n \\aht1\HPprinter "KA Kueh" <kka@ksm.com.my> wrote in message news:euVpS864HHA.1992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Dear all, > > I have setup shared printers in Windows 2003 AD server (primary) and have > users now in production environment. Is there a way to move the shared > printer to secondary AD server without repointing the client machine. > Thank you. > > Regards, > Kueh. >
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Windows 2003 Print Server To change the print server, you need to scan already installed printer and change the share to the new server. a vbscript can do that quite easily -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com "NW" <interest@yahhoo.com> wrote in message news:%23L9eMR$4HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > If you have Server 2003 R2, then you might consider using group policy to > deploy printers, you won't have to touch the clients. > > Otherwise, from what I know, running a script on the clients login or > startup script may be the best bet. > > For example, here's a command that adds a printer shared from the > server1... > > rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n \\aht1\HPprinter > > "KA Kueh" <kka@ksm.com.my> wrote in message > news:euVpS864HHA.1992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Dear all, >> >> I have setup shared printers in Windows 2003 AD server (primary) and have >> users now in production environment. Is there a way to move the shared >> printer to secondary AD server without repointing the client machine. >> Thank you. >> >> Regards, >> Kueh. >> > >
Guest Chris Hills Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Windows 2003 Print Server NW wrote: > If you have Server 2003 R2, then you might consider using group policy to > deploy printers, you won't have to touch the clients. I do this, with a gpo for each printer. The question is, when you migrate the printers to a new server, how do you go about updating all the gpos? I could probably write a script to this, searching for all the ms-Print-ConnectionPolicy objects and updating the relevant attributes (Server-Name and UNC-Name) but it seems a little hackish. Regards Chris
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