Hi,
I have successfully migrated all the printers to a new server(VM).
The only other issue i have is, keeping everyone's default printers and the printers they currently have in their "Devices & Printers". The names of the printers are staying the same.
I want to have these ports moved over to the new server and users never knew i migrated these printers.(Scenario: Migration is done, user's printers that have already been added before in "Devices & Printers" stay the same and is able
to print from the printer they already had in "Devices & Printers".)
I noticed that there is an option to export printer ports in Print Management GUI. Does this apply to also keeping the same printers in the users "Devices & Printers" or is this something else?
Also, Is there a way to transfer users printer in "Devices & Printers" that are NOT set to defaults? Basically transition existing printers in "Devices & Printers" to the same ones added but essentially in the "background",
they are different. The ports are pointing to the server, but i now need to point users printers back to the new printer.
How can i make this happen? It is not ideal for us to have users re-add all the printers in "Devices & Printers".
To add further to this...
We are now taking into consideration using GPO's for this instead is scripting this, as it seems to be more practical.
Do you know if and when we apply GPO's to re-map the printers ports to the users workstation, what stage is this GPO applied? Is this applied when the user restarts the computer? Is this a computer policy or a user policy to achieve this? Also, is this applied
before login or after login if it is a user GPO. If its computer, does this apply to users ONLY connected to the subnet once in the office, or will this work for users that are not in the office as well? Can this GPO be applied on VPN?
I appreciate you help.
Thank you,
Jonathan