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I have another thread regarding his migration here. It was thought I should ask this in a separate thread.
Basically I will need to migrate the Print server portion of the old 2012 standard server (DC/File/Print) to the new, 2019 server.
But upon reading this, I realized I don't even have the print and document Services role running on the old server. I just have the printers installed and share them out. When the clients try, they just discover and use them. This is a small company (~40 users) and it's worked fine.
So should I just do the same thing on the new (2019) server or am I missing something wonderful by not adding the print services role?
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Hi
Good day!
I'm just following up to make sure you received my last reply and that my answers properly address your questions.
If you have any further questions or concerns about this case, please let me know.
Hello @ Jim
Except printer share, print services role also allows you to manage scanning and print through web browser.
The main advantage of using the Print and Document Services role is that you can manage printers on your server and share them directly, when configured with group policy, printer can show up on each client ‘s computer automatically without search and add manually.
How to Deploy Printers to Users or Computers via Group Policy? – TheITBros
Very nice. Learn something every day. Thank you, I'll employ that on the new server. Looks like it might be tricky after doing the switch over after shutting down the old server.
Hello Jim@Jim
I'm so glad that I could provide some help here, it will be great to mark any useful answer so other can easily find it.
