What Happens at Failover

When a group containing a Print Spooler resource fails over to another node, the document that is currently being spooled to the printer is restarted from the other node after the failure. When you move a Print Spooler resource or take it offline, Cluster service waits until all documents are finished spooling or until the configured wait time has elapsed. Documents that are spooling from an application to a Print Spooler resource are discarded and must be respooled to the resource (or reprinted) if the group containing the resource fails over before the application has finished spooling.

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