If you encounter this message when attempting to install Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 drivers on a Windows 2003 Server x64 print server: ”The specified location does not contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the location contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with the Windows x64 Edition operating system.”
Copy the x86 drivers to a machine running Windows XP x86 or whichever OS you are trying to upload to the print server. Browse to the server by going to \\servername, open the printers and faxes folder, highlight the printer, go to file, server properties, drivers tab, add and browse to the location of the x86 drivers. This makes the drivers available on the server and any machines connecting will be able to automatically download the correct driver.
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How to move a Blackberry Professional Server from Vmware Server to Vmware ESX Server 3.5
Current Environment:
- Blackberry Professional 4.1.4.15, 30 users.
- Guest Vmware Server – “The Blackberry Server”: Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Std, Intel Xeon 2.00 GHz 5130, 2GB RAM, 12 GB drive
- Host – Physical Server: HP Proliant DL385 G2, 2 Intel Xeon 2.00 GHz 5130, 9 GB, Smart Array E200i, 2 mirrored arrays 72GB, Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Std x64
ESX Environment
- ESX 3.5 Server: HP Proliant DL385 G5, 8 CPU x 2.1 GHz, Quad-Core AMD Opteron CPU 2352, 26 GB RAM, .5 TB disk space.
- From ESX Vmware Virtual Infrastructure client click consolidation, analyze physical computers for consolidation, select “Manually specify the computers to consolidate”, enter the name or IP of the server you wish to migrate, click add to analysis, the computer will be analyzed for a few minutes . You may need t o set up the credentials the consolidation service uses under Administration, Consolidation Settings, Default credentials if the analysis does not run.
- Once the machine has been analyzed and is ready to migrate I shut down all Blackberry services on the current vmware server and also shut down the SQL service. Leave the machine running.
- From the vmi client right click the machine listed under consolidation, analysis and choose convert with recommendations, choose which esx server to migrate to if you have more than one.
- It took about 50 minutes for the conversion to complete.
- Once it was complete I shut down the current Blackberry server and turned on the new server.
- Everything worked!
- One Note: For some reason I lost the “Consolidation” button on the vim client after I did this. I don’t think it was related to this procedure. Anyways I checked the virtual capacity planner service was running and even restarted it but no luck. Once I restarted the machine running the virtual center the button came back.
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