print server 03 to 12 and IP addresses help
Greetings,
I would like to move printers from an old 2003 print server to a new 2012 server. All HP printers and Windows 7 Pro desktops / laptops. I found a few articles online which seem to have pretty good directions (I bookmarked them and will post the links later).
However, I would also like to change about 15 of the printer's IP addresses as they are not in the same range, and are scattered themselves. I have 15 concurrent static addresses available for them. Just wondering if changing the IP will affect users. Essentially, will they need to remap them?
Also, some are named by the default HP name (seeing a lot of NPI / NDI). Same question for name changes. Will changing affect users and will they need to remap if I change a name? Some printers are in the range I'd like to use so there would be no IP change, just a name change, some will have both changed.
thanks
I would like to move printers from an old 2003 print server to a new 2012 server. All HP printers and Windows 7 Pro desktops / laptops. I found a few articles online which seem to have pretty good directions (I bookmarked them and will post the links later).
However, I would also like to change about 15 of the printer's IP addresses as they are not in the same range, and are scattered themselves. I have 15 concurrent static addresses available for them. Just wondering if changing the IP will affect users. Essentially, will they need to remap them?
Also, some are named by the default HP name (seeing a lot of NPI / NDI). Same question for name changes. Will changing affect users and will they need to remap if I change a name? Some printers are in the range I'd like to use so there would be no IP change, just a name change, some will have both changed.
thanks
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Just now getting back to this. Ran into some storage issues that had to be dealt with.
Stoner79 - thanks for the link. It pointed to 2008 but I found info for 2012. I believe I will go with Group Policy for the new printer server.
Stoner79 - thanks for the link. It pointed to 2008 but I found info for 2012. I believe I will go with Group Policy for the new printer server.
i would not mess with ip's unless you are going to deploy them via group policy
i would start clean and not try to migrate them....
i would start clean and not try to migrate them....
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Well, will scripting it to delete old printers and add new work? I only have about 20 printers and they are already in a batch file so it'll be easy to edit it to delete the old mappings and add the new. I would think it would be anyway. Any tips on that?
thanks again.