6.3 Planning to Upgrade iPrint to OES

Platforms

Prepare the Workstations First

Novell recommends deploying the iPrint agent to workstations before converting the backend infrastructure to OES. This will allow for the phased removal of the NDPS-based printers from the workstations and for a phased and transparent transition to OES 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.