I am in charge of a print server at my medium size business. There are one-thousand two-hundred printers on the print server and most of them are HP printers, along with some Zebra printers.
My challenge is that the print server is Windows Server 2008R2 and this OS is no longer supported. I tried an in place upgrade to Windows Server 2012R2, but it came through on the other side with Server Manager and Event Viewer crashing. The print server is a vm running on Hyper-V, so I was able to revert it to a snapshot. I didn't do much troubleshooting.
What would you recommend that I do?
- Try the in-place upgrade again and simply focus on troubleshooting the issues after the upgrade.
- Build a Windows Server 2016 server with the print and document services role, import the printers with a Printer Migration File, and do an IP address and name switch. I can't find the documentation for the Windows Server 2016 Print and Document Services role.
- Other approach.
Thanks for your help with this.
-Tim Diskataneous