In this procedure we will migrate the printers from one server to another, it doesn't matter the operating system of the origin and the destination. This procedure copies the printers, your drivers and their configurations to the target with the Microsoft tool, PRINTMIG (HERE).

This image shows the start, how printers are shared on the SERVERNT and how on the server 2003 There is none.

Once the above has been done, we run the PRINTMIG (HERE) from Windows NT4, and what we will do is a backup of all the drivers that you have installed from printers and their statuses. To do this, “Actions” > “Backup…”

We tell you where we want to save the copy .CAB.

Ok, We close it. And we move the generated NT4 file (the backup CAB file) to Windows 2003 to restore it.

What I said, already from Windows 2003 (SERVER02), we run the PRINTMIG, “Actions” > “Restore…”

We select the CAB from before…

Ok and we close.

And we have already verified that all the printers are in the SERVER02 (Windows 2003), shared and with the same name. The only thing left is to unshare them from NT4, that this program does not make it automated.