During one of my projects we had to do a print migration of +500 printers and as this could become a repeating task during other migrations we decided to use RES Automation Manager to get this done. Because the old print server was a Windows Server 2003 and the new print server is a Windows Server 2008 R2 we couldn’t do an export/import. I listed  all printers in the following format:

Printserver,Driver,IPAddress,Portname,Sharename,Location,Comment,Printername

I used the following scripts to get this information:

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Because I’m using DNS names to configure ports I used the script from  Eric Wright to add all DNS records into the DNS based on this CSV file: Update Microsoft DNS records with PowerShell and DNSCMD

So I got the information I needed in this CSV file so I can create a new job in RES Automation Manager to create the printers based on this information:

I’ve created different tasks in one module on which I configured to contintue on error. In this task I used parameters for the following fields:

As you can see I’ve used all input from the CSV but I used a condition too, based on the input from the CSV I determined which printer drive should be installed:

Not all printers where created using this script, printers that where offline couldn’t be reached and couldn’t be installed so I had to run the script 3/4 times before all printers where created.

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Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is a Staff Solutions Architect for End User Computing at Nutanix. Kees has driven numerous Microsoft and Citrix, and RES infrastructures functional/technical designs, migrations, implementations engagements over the years.

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