#MAC RESTART PRINT SERVICE WINDOWS#

Once Print Management is up and running, right click on the server in the left pane from which the printer is to be migrated (the source server) and select Export Printers To a File from the menu. This form of migration is performed using the Printer Migration Wizard which, along with most other tasks, is accessed from the Print Management interface. If this is not the case, the printer export file will need to be copied onto the destination server or made available via file sharing and imported using Print Management on that server. The steps outlined below assume that print Management has been configured to manage both the source and target print servers as outlined in the preceding section of this chapter. This makes it easy, for example, to take a print server off-line for maintenance or to permanently re-assign a printer from one print server to another.

#MAC RESTART PRINT SERVICE WINDOWS#

Windows Server 2008 also provides the ability to migrate both printers and print queues from one print server to another. Migrating Printers and Queues Between Servers The new print servers will now appear alongside the local server under Print Servers in the left hand pane of the Print Management screen as illustrated below: Once all the required remote print servers have been added to the list, click on Apply then close the dialog to return to the main Print Management window. The following figure illustrates the Add/Remove Servers dialog box configured with both the local and remote servers: When one or more servers have been selected, click on the Add to list button to add the servers to the list. To add additional print servers either enter a comma separated list of server names, or use the Browse button to locate servers on the network.

If no remote print servers have been added previously the only server listed will be the local system. The resulting dialog box displays the currently configured print servers under the management of local Print Management. This is achieved by first launching Print Management on the local winserver-1 system ( Start -> Administration Tools -> Print Management), right clicking on the Print Servers node of the tree hierarchy in the left hand pane and selecting the Add/Remove Servers option.įrom the resulting menu, select the Add/Remove Servers option. Both systems have the print services role installed and Print Management on winserver-1 will be configured to also manage print services on winserver-2. For the purposes of this example a theoretical configuration consisting of two Windows Server 2008 systems named winserver-1 and winserver-2 is assumed. In this section we will look at adding remote servers to the local Print Management configuration.

So far we have only looked and managing the print server running on the local computer. In the previous chapter it was stated that the Print Management tool provides a central location from which the print services for an entire network may be managed.

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