Printers Migration drivers and ports

Printers Migration drivers and ports

For the Printer Migration

Server 2012 Print Management tool supports an export feature, this will export the printers, print queues, printer drivers to a print migration file. just go to print management > right click your print server > choose export. then take the file to you new print server and do an import.

you can access the print migration directly as well see the link below:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773832(v=ws.10).aspx

another option is to use the windows server migration tools:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379545(v=ws.10).aspx

here is a print migration guide:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379488(v=ws.10).aspx

as for redirecting the users existing printers, are the computers domain joined?

if so then I would use Group Policy Preferences to map new printers to their computers, set the default printer and remove the old ones.