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We have a Windows 2003 printer server that has worked fine for years. I recently built a Windows 2008r2 server and started configuring the same printers on that server with the same IP addresses assuming I could let the server sit for a week or so before we start using it. I was adding printers one by one to the new server and downloading all the proper 64 and 32 bit drivers and testing printing from a Windows 7 64 bit workstation and an XP 32 bit workstation. All of a sudden a handful of users, but not all of them, starting having print issues intermittently. Some could no long communicate with their printer configuations they had used for years even before I actually started hooking live users up to the new server. Could something in the new server be interfering with the old server? I thought you could have mulitple print servers pointing to the same printer??? The majority of users are fine and it is business as usual. Does anyone have any input? This is a windows 2008 forrest level domain
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We have a Windows 2003 printer server that has worked fine for years. I recently built a Windows 2008r2 server and started configuring the same printers on that server with the same IP addresses assuming I could let the server sit for a week or so before we start using it. I was adding printers one by one to the new server and downloading all the proper 64 and 32 bit drivers and testing printing from a Windows 7 64 bit workstation and an XP 32 bit workstation. All of a sudden a handful of users, but not all of them, starting having print issues intermittently. Some could no long communicate with their printer configuations they had used for years even before I actually started hooking live users up to the new server. Could something in the new server be interfering with the old server? I thought you could have mulitple print servers pointing to the same printer??? The majority of users are fine and it is business as usual. Does anyone have any input? This is a windows 2008 forrest level domain

Building new print server causing issues with printing before I even configure users to print from the new server

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.