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What is the best solution to get the exact copy of the printers from Server A to Server B in Citrix environment? Will PrintMig.exe help or I just need to install the print device one at a time?

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If you have one of the latest flavours of Citrix then there is an automatic Printer Driver copy/Install over multiple servers. Managment Console if I remember correctly, in printers funnily enough.

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19972003,
ascotta is correct.
Citrix provides a very easy way to copy print drivers across multiple Citrix servers.

Just launch the Citrix Management Console and go down to the Printer Management folder.

From here you can view a specific server (source server for print driver) and then push out the print drivers to other Citrix servers.

Pretty straight forward and saves a lot of time.
Hope that helps.
 
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Thank you for the information, I will give a try; on the side note, after I get the printer migrated, will be better to update the drivers to the latest driver?

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when the driver is driver is replicated over to the destination server, will I still have to install the print devices or the printer is going to show up in the printer and Fax window?

TIA
 
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Imported network printers will replicate accross the farm. Drivers will replicate across the farm, client printers on the other hand are a different kettle of fish.

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Scott
 
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thank you, what will be the best practice of the print drivers? get the latest one from the vendor or just copy it from the other server? I was able to get the driver over to the new server, but when I try to browse the driver during the installation of the actual printer, I can't located the driver does the replication take long? 20 minutes or a few hours?

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What I wopuld be doing is :-

Pick a server and install all the latest drivers on to it.

Then in the Management COnsole replicate the drivers to all the other servers.
Sometimes It takes a bit of time 20 mins, but make sure you refresh the Management Console, even log off and log back on again, it can take a bit of time.

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