contingency for print server

March 26, 2008

Hi all. I have a windows2003 server acting as a print server which shares out

many printers for my domain users to map. However recently there was a

motherboard failure and though i have a 4hours response contract for this

server, it took a whole day to recover the server. And for the whole day many

various department could not print to the respective printers. Hence my

question is what kind of contigency you guys have for such print server. Thks

in advance.

March 26, 2008

Re: contingency for print server

You could:

- create a VM print server

- use the print migrator utility to copy all printers and drivers to it,

whenever you add a new printer

- keep the VM with low resources or off

- when needed, swap it in and rename it.

Anthony,

"inenewbl" <inenewbl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hi all. I have a windows2003 server acting as a print server which shares

> out

> many printers for my domain users to map. However recently there was a

> motherboard failure and though i have a 4hours response contract for this

> server, it took a whole day to recover the server. And for the whole day

> many

> various department could not print to the respective printers. Hence my

> question is what kind of contigency you guys have for such print server.

> Thks

> in advance.

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