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Published on May 17, 2005.
Last Modified on May 17, 2005.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
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Save money by consolidating your print servers.

Print Migrator is a free tool from Microsoft that can be used to migrate print servers running Windows NT 4.0 Server to Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003. Print Migrator has another use however, namely print server consolidation. Using Print Migrator you can migrate the configurations of multiple print servers to a single machine. Consolidation is a big thing in enterprises these days, and it's a good way of saving money because you'll need fewer machines. To consolidate print servers using Print Migrator, back up the configuration of each print server and then restore each configuration one at a time to the same target machine. Each new configuration migrated will merge (not overwrite) existing ones, and you should end up with a functioning, single print server.

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 .