Ever tried re-installing a file/print server?  And ever had to manually recreate a number of printers / print cue’s?  Its a horrible way to spend an evening :-/ And actually its a total waste of good (Battlefield playing) time, if you use “Print Migrator” from Microsoft to export the printers in advance you can simply re-import all printers and cue’s in minutes.  In order for this to work properly, you should export your printers from time to time (as a disaster recovery preemptive step). Print Migrator is a Microsoft utility, and its free 😉 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/printmigrator3.1.mspx Additional disaster recovery hints; Be sure to backup; DHCP scopes, Printers, Shared folder info (a reg key) – “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanserverShares” (you can once you have restored all data simply import this registry key and all shares are restored with correct NTFS). Export data via commandline this way; Create a C:ackup directory use this commandline: regedit /e c:ackupshares.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanservares printmig -b c:ackup\%computername%-Printers.cab Now you will have a dump of your printer cue’s and the setup of all your shares on this server/machine, these can be found in c:ackup. This will reduce your recovery time tenfold. I use a scheduled script like this to ensure I have a current backup of printers and shares; @Echo off cls Echo ************************************************************************************* Echo * SYSTEMBACKUP SCRIPT V 20081104        * Echo * This script will backup printers, dhcp and shares to c:systembackup directory    * Echo ************************************************************************************* Echo. rem rem   To schedule at 12:00 /interactive /every:sa “c:systembackupsystembackup.cmd” rem mkdir c:systembackup mkdir c:systembackupdhcp mkdir c:systembackupprinters mkdir c:systembackupshares Echo System Backup Commencing… [SHARES] regedit.exe /e c:systembackupshares\%computername%-shares.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceslanmanserver Echo System Backup Commencing… [PRINTERS] c:systembackup oolsprintmig.exe -b c:systembackupprinters\%computername%-Printers.cab Echo System Backup Commencing… [DHCP] del /F /Q c:systembackupdhcp*.* copy %systemroot%system32dhcpBackup ew c:systembackupdhcp regedit.exe /e c:systembackupdhcp\%computername%-dhcp.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDHCPServerParameters netsh dhcp server dump > c:systembackupdhcpDHCPconfig.cfg Echo Done. exit