Going backwards from 2012R2 to 2008R2

I have a situation in our environment (application compatibility) where I may need to migrate printers from 2012R2 to 2008R2. Can anyone tell me if the Microsoft Print Migration tool will let me do this or if there is a better way? We'd originally
planned to move from 2003 to 2012R2 for our print servers & I have a model system built out in 2012R2 (with all of our queues created like we want) however now it may be necessary to downgrade to 2008R2.
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If you still have the 2003 machine it may be easier to power that back on and perform the backup using the 2008R2 version of the tool. Then restore to 2008R2.
The tool was designed to back up a previous OS printers and restore to the OS that the tool is running from.
The issue you will have backing up 2012R2.
1) V4 drivers are stored in the \windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository directory. They are not in spool\drivers\x64\3. Only Windows 8 and above versions of the utility can back up this storage path.
2) The winprint.dll print processor is newer and will fail the restore on 2008R2. You will need to expand the backup and remove the references to this file before the restore.
3) WSD ports will cause an issue if you have them on 2012R2. There was a bunch of work added to get this functionality working in 2012R2. If you have this port type AND you restore from 2012R2 to 2008R2, the experience will be better but I suspect
some of the port installations will fail.
4) Can't think of anything else. Next stop is perform the restore on a test 2008R2 machine and see what the result is.
5) Please report back on your findings. I'm sure someone later in life will find the outcome useful.
Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

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