Migration of printers with all configurations from one windows server to another windows server using powershell

Question

_{Friday, August 11, 2017 4:22 AM}

Hi all,

  Could you please suggest me an effecitive idea/method to migrate 500+ printers from one server to another using powershell with all configurations.

I had already tried with the same using printbrm commands.But that was not successful with some drivers issue and all.

So i would like to develope a powershell script without using printbrm for that.Please suggest me an effective idea to make this a success.

Thanks in advance

:) :)

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_{Friday, August 11, 2017 4:40 AM ✅Answered}

Also refer 

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShell-Script-for-057ae37a

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Migration-of-Printers-From-4231538a

_{Friday, August 11, 2017 7:53 AM ✅Answered}

If you want to export the list of printers with detail, find the powershell script, mention your print server and get it to CSV.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Export-Printers-IP-Name-a85ccf53

Or else, https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/354692-export-a-list-of-printer-names-models-and-ip-addresses

_{Friday, August 11, 2017 4:29 AM}

You should be using PrintManager: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766474(v=ws.11).aspx

Please review the following;  This forum is for scripting questions rather than script requests

You can look in the Gallery for pre-written scripts that might solve your issue: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com

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_{Friday, August 11, 2017 7:46 AM}

Thanku for your reply and I regret if I was wrong with my question.

I just meant for an option/idea like print management,Exporting to csv so on.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions

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_{Friday, August 11, 2017 2:26 PM}

Your best choice for learning how to best migrate printers is to post in the print serve forum.

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_{Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:45 AM}

Hi,
If you want to migrate printers from one server to another, you could use the Printer Migration Wizard to do that following the step-by-step blog:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2013/06/16/step-by-step-migrating-print-servers-from-windows-server-2008-to-windows-server-2012/
And regarding on script, I doubt that there is a ready script for you, in this case, I would contact an consultant on scripting based on your environment. 
Best regards, 
Wendy

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_{Friday, August 18, 2017 8:53 AM}

Hi,

I am checking how the issue is going, if you still have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

And if the replies as above are helpful, we would appreciate you to mark them as answers, and if you resolve it using your own solution, please share your experience and solution here. It will be greatly helpful to others who have the same question.

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Wendy

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_{Monday, November 13, 2017 3:35 PM}

Hi all,

  Still I am working on that.

  I am going forward with printbrm commands for bulk export of printers and for restoring the printer preferences I am using rundll32 printui.dll method which I found as an effective method to restore all printer preferences.

But facing little difficulties in executing rundll32 commands remotely from a localhost

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