Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Two: Recommendations

re: Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Two: Recommendations

IT Training — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:28 GMT

When I connect to my remote server (Win 2003) via RDP, I would like Printer Redirection not to happen at all - is this possible?

re: Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Two: Recommendations

Carol — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:36:04 GMT

How can I determine which drivers in the Add Printer Wizard are the inbox drivers, and which may have been added later by a previous adminstrator?

Also, how do patches and updates affect these drivers, for example could an update change a driver version to a newer version?

re: Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Two: Recommendations

Sumesh — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:46:42 GMT

Thanks. Unfortunately we dont have such a list. With vendors coming out with new models quite often you can understand how hard maintaining such a list could be for us.

However I have seen vendors like HP mention in their website whether a given driver is cluster aware or not (this may not be true for all drivers though).

Moreover the vendors tech support is able to tell you what drivers are not cluster aware.

re: Windows 2003 Print Clusters - Part Two: Recommendations

Ian R — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:08:04 GMT

Hi Sumesh, excellent articles. We're recently in the midst of a large scale conversion to a W2K3 Clustered Print solution (Active/Active). One of the troubles we're encountering is that many of the print drivers converted via the PrintMigrator utility weren't cluster-friendly. Any chance you guys have a list of cluster-friendly Print Drivers and-or Alternative Drivers? We're a mostly all HP shop, as I'm sure many others are... so this sort-of list would be gold.