2008 R2 has some additional improvements in the print space so you definitely want to go straight there if setting something new up.
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print Server suggestions I have setup and managed 2003 and 2008 print servers in a research environment and found that the 2008 were much more stable and would reliably allow both XP, Vista and 7 to connect and run. They were setup very generically with nothing fancy being done. Vista and 7 always had the printers assigned and ready by the first run if I setup the GPO which was much easier done in 2008 as well. XP would connect but the user had to find the print server first. I believe there was a patch that fixed this issue but at the time XP was either being fased out or were where they would sit until replaced. Jon On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: I hate to toss such a generic question out there but I have zero experience in this area. We are putting up a new building this summer, replacing our larges which would be the High School. We have always just used network attached printers and let the users run free. Less hassle for us but probably not the most cost effective way to do it. So I am thinking 2008 R2 print server and some sort of usage monitoring software. Any ideas on suggested software to monitor all of this, or any ideas on a better design? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
