Number of printers per 2003 server

[ASH Support]

What is the recommended maximum print queues can I put in
windows 2003 print server with the following:
single 2 Ghz processor and 1 Gig of ram? Thanks.

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

What is the recommended maximum print queues can I put in
windows 2003 print server with the following:
single 2 Ghz processor and 1 Gig of ram? Thanks.

This white paper from Microsoft discusses your question:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/printservscal.mspx

To give you a rough idea though, where I work we host about 100 queues on a
866mhz machine with 256MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. (Windows 2000, not
2003-- but close enough.) It works fine.

 

[Nik]

We have severel win2k printservers running 1 x930 + 512
RAM with approx. 500 queues per server, 120 queues active
al the time. No problem, it is working fine. We are
testing the posibility of upgrading and consolidating 3 to
1 printserver with w2k3 and 1500 queues.

/nik