Server Migration Tools

A list of tools to make your life a little easier when migrating a company to a new server. Everything from files to printers its always nice to have an app to make the process a little easier.

Windows Print Migrator

This handy little tool will backup all of your installed printers along with the installed drivers for those printers to a CAB file. Transfer this file to a new server and use the Windows Print Migrator to install the same printers and drivers that you backed up on the previous workstation.  Its also nice to backup your print servers printers in case of a system failure so you can load the printers back onto a different server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9B9F2925-CBC9-44DA-B2C9-FFDBC46B0B17&displaylang=en


Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit

This wizard will help you migrate files between file servers and is even compatible with Distributed File System (DFS). It will keep all of your shares permissions and file permissions in tact.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d00e3eae-930a-42b0-b595-66f462f5d87b&displaylang=en


Double Driver

Scan your system and create a list of all drivers installed. Then select the ones you would like to backup, this will allow you to reinstall the same drivers on a new system or the same system after reinstalling Windows. This will save you time so you dont have to search the internet for the proper drivers for your system. No longer will you have that one item in Device Manager with a generic name and not beable to find an appropriate driver.

http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm