I have two Windows 2003 R2 x64 servers servicing 32 bit clients. We've
had driver conflict after driver conflict.

So, I'm going to migrate the printer servers to 32 bit. I have only
one spare server. To keep the helpdesk guys from having to touch every
machine I was planning on doing the following:

1) Set up spare server as Win2k3R2 32bit.
2) Recreate (or use the Printer Migration Tool) the printers from one
of the print servers to the spare one.
3) Shut down the 64 bit print server and change the 32 bit server to
the 64 bit server's name/ip.
4) Repeat for the 2nd print server.

Is this the best way to do this without having lot's of downtime for
the users?

Are you in an Active Directory environment? Windows Server 2003 R2 allows
you to deploy printers using Group Policy, which would deploy the migrated
printers without requiring you to lay hands on individual client machines:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/art...indows-R2.html

HTH


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Laura E. Hunter
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
Author: _Active Directory Consultant's Field Guide_
(http://tinyurl.com/7f8ll)
Author: _Active Directory Cookbook, Second Edition_
(http://tinyurl.com/z7svl)

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