JSI Tip 10617. How can you add the printer data of a print server you are retiring to an existing print server?

Download Microsoft (R) Windows (TM) Printer Migrator 3.1, placing PRINTMIG.EXE into a folder that is in your path.

When you type PRINTMIG /?, you see:

Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Microsoft Corp. All rights reservedusage: PRINTMIG [options] [server]       [-?] Display this message       [-b] Backup - followed by CAB file name       [-r] Restore - followed by CAB file name        [-l] Attempt to convert LPR Ports to SPM        [-i] Suppress warning popups.  Info still written to log file. If server is not specified then the local machine is implied. Example command line to restore an existing config to a server:  printmig -r d:printps1.cab \prt-srvr1 Example command line to backup a server to the specified file:  printmig -b "\filesrvstoreprint server 2.cab" \prt-srvr2

The default behavior of Restore (-r) in Print Migrator 3.1 is to add the printer data to the existing data of the target sever.

To retire a PrtSvr1, adding its' printer data to an existing print server PrtSvr2:

1. Open a CMD.EXE prompt on your workstation.

2. Backup PrtSvr1 using:

PRINTMIG -b PrtSvr1.cab \PrtSvr1

3. Retire PrtSvr1.

4. Restore PrtSvr1.cab to PrtSvr2 using:

PRINTMIG -r PrtSvr1.cab \PrtSvr2

NOTE: If you goal was to configure PrtSvr2 to only have the printers for PrtSvr1, then run Cleanspl.exe before you run PRINTMIG -r PrtSvr1.cab \PrtSvr2