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        Back Up Printer Configurations

Section(s): TroubleShooting, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous
Published on May 18, 2005.
Last Modified on May 18, 2005.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
Rated 2.6 out of 5 based on 10 votes.

Protect your print servers by backing up their printer configurations.

Another use for Print Migrator besides migrating NT printers to Windows 2000/2003 and consolidating multiple print servers into a single print server is to use this free tool to back up the configurations of your network printers. This can be a lifesaver should you ever accidentally delete a printer or make a configuration change to a printer and forget what you did. In such an event, all you nee to do is start Print Migrator on your print server, select Action --> Restore, select the backed-up printer configuration, and click Open without specifying a target IP address. This will restore the saved configuration to the local machine and restore things to the way they were before.

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .