I had first created a print server (new server hardware) on an entirely new domain, let's call it DomainB. I listed these in AD. Later, after spending hours setting up all the printers, I was told we're abandoning DomainB and just to join that new server to the old domain, let's call it DomainA. I know i's easy enough to unjoin one domain, rejoin another, which I did, but when I modified my group policies that push printers, to point to the new server (new UNC path versus previous UNC path to my old print server (old server hardware), it did not print.
Just some history: When I first build that new print server on the new domain, I had tried creating a printer migration file from the old print server on my old domain, then importing that to my new print server on my new
domain, and it was pretty much a dismal failure. If I recall I think if it migrated anything, it was just the 'Microsoft XPS Document writer', or maybe 3 or 4 other printers ---- out of a total of around 50 printers! (that is why I
had to set them all up from scratch again) So hopefully no one will suggest that to me. Maybe? it had something to do with migrating between domains, or else with the new print server being 2012 R2 and the old 2008 R2?
Anyhow...hoping there's some easier way to get the old domain (that we've decided to keep) to recognize these printers on the new print server......