Upgrading Iprint To Oes; Limitations - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2.0 SP2 - UPGRADING TO OES-PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 12-2009 Implementation Manual

Platforms
iPrint Source and Target Server Requirements
Table 6-1
Source Server
NetWare 5.1 or later
Prepare the Workstations First
Novell recommends deploying the iPrint agent to workstations before converting the backend
infrastructure to OES 2 SP2. This will allow for the phased removal of the NDPS-based printers
from the workstations before it becomes a requirement with the deployment of iPrint on OES 2. This
will allow for a phased and transparent OES 2 printing services for users.
Automated tools are available to deploy the iPrint agent to any workstations still using NDPS. This
can also be done using a ZENworks application deployment. A silent install option is available.
Use DNS Names Rather than IP Addresses
An additional consideration is the use of literal IP addresses vs. DNS entries with the printer
configurations deployed to the workstations. If the printer/manager configurations are using IP
address assignments rather than DNS, Novell recommends deploying the iPrint agent to all of the
workstations and changing the existing iPrint managers to a DNS configuration. This will allow you
to convert to iPrint in OES without having to revisit the workstations.
If you use DNS, the new iPrint infrastructure can be transferred to OES in phases while leaving the
existing NetWare infrastructure in place. The users are converted over when the DNS entry for each
individual print manager is changed.

6.3.2 Limitations

You can't migrate printer object ACL (Access Control List) assignments when migrating cross-tree.
When migrating from OES 1 to OES2, the iPrint Direct setting from the source printer agents will
not get transferred to OES 2.

6.4 Upgrading iPrint to OES

iPrint can be installed and configured on OES 2 SP2 in parallel with an existing print environment to
allow for a phased migration of users to the iPrint infrastructure. While iPrint can be used to support
queue-based printing, it is not the preferred method (the only normal requirement to maintain a
queue is to support legacy DOS-based applications that print directly to a queue rather than to a
Windows printer or LPT port).
Novell recommends the following steps to bring a current printing environment up to supported
standards before transferring your print infrastructure to OES 2 SP2 clusters as required:
Install and configure iPrint on any NetWare 6.5 clusters.
Install and configure all network printers in iPrint.
Install and configure web-based client deployment tools.
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Target Server
OES 2 SP2 with iPrint installed and the Driver Store
configured