limit on printers in 2003 server

[Randy Reimers]

I'm setting up a print server on 2003 for our migration to AD. Easy
enough to set up, but have a question:
I have about 150 printers to install, and don't know if I should put that
many on 1 server. The Novell server handled them just fine, but I have
concerns that 2003 can handle that many. There are about 10 different
models, HP and Lexmark, none are extreme load. There is a mix of 98SE and
XP for the PCs, I have read that 98 is a smaller load on the system.
Anybody have some real-world guidelines?
I found a paper on MS site, called "Windows Server 2003 - Print Server
Scalability and Sizing Technical Overview" The paper give NO real help,
only very general information and broad guidelines. There is a section on
performance monitoring, but I am unable to figure out how to follow the
directions - I can't get to where I'm supposed to select Spoolsv.exe from
the instance list. Can anyone give me real-world directions to follow, that
work?

Thank you - Randy

 

[Dave]

-----Original Message-----
I'm setting up a print server on 2003 for our migration to AD. Easy
enough to set up, but have a question:
I have about 150 printers to install, and don't know if I should put that
many on 1 server. The Novell server handled them just fine, but I have
concerns that 2003 can handle that many. There are about 10 different
models, HP and Lexmark, none are extreme load. There is a mix of 98SE and
XP for the PCs, I have read that 98 is a smaller load on the system.
Anybody have some real-world guidelines?
I found a paper on MS site, called "Windows Server 2003 - Print Server
Scalability and Sizing Technical Overview" The paper give NO real help,
only very general information and broad guidelines. There is a section on
performance monitoring, but I am unable to figure out how to follow the
directions - I can't get to where I'm supposed to select Spoolsv.exe from
the instance list. Can anyone give me real-world directions to follow, that
work?

Thank you - Randy


.

Windows Server 2003 can handle that many printers just
fine. We migrated about 406 printers(from an overloaded
NT server) to 3 Windows 2000 servers. The I have 120 on
1 server, 165 on another server, and 121 on the 3rd. I
know that 2003 can handle at least the same.