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Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Fix Broken Printer

July 20, 2014 Jul 20, 2014 07/20/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to fix a printer that keeps losing its duplexer. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about Windows PowerShell is that if I want to, I can generally use it to solve all of my issues. Sometimes the issue is not sufficient that I want...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Perform More Than One Action with the Win32_Printer WMI Class?

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! The Win32_Printer WMI class has several methods that are listed in it. But I am not sure how to best use these methods from inside a Windows PowerShell script. I do not want to create four different scripts to send a test page, clean out print jobs, and to cycle the print queue. Do you have an example of how I ...