Windows Server 2003 Print Failover Cluster optimization

June 16, 2008

1:03 am

Windows Server 2003 Print Failover Cluster optimization

There are a lot of administrators that need to maintain a highly available Print Server running on Windows Server 2003 RTM/SP1/R2/SP2 Failover Clusters

Hopefully with this series of blog posts, you will be able to create a solid printing environment where you can maintain close to 99.99% uptime* and have good performance during a move or failover.

I’m going to be assuming that you have already have either built a brand new Windows Server 2003 Print Failover Cluster or are migrating from a Windows 2000 Server Print Failover Cluster.**

Personally, I prefer that you build a brand new O.S. instead of migrating, this provides you to start fresh. All you have to do is migrate the actual print queues.

After you have built it, I hope that you have it optimized per:

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