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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use WMI to Add a Printer Connection by Using Windows PowerShell?

May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 05/19/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to determine how to use WMI to add a printer connection by using Windows PowerShell. I have found this script, but it uses VBScript and not WMI. This means that it is not very close at all, I am afraid. Do you have a WMI script I can use?- CM(image) (image) Hi CM,Ed looked around, but he did not find ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Document Printer Usage on Client Workstations?

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am tasked with the problem of documenting printer use on our client workstations. I must be able to determine whether someone prints directly to a printer, or if they are printing through our print servers. This is important because we have purchased a print monitoring software package that is used to back-charge...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove All the Network Printers on a Computer?

November 2, 2007 Nov 2, 2007 11/2/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to delete or remove all network printers from a workstation with a VBScript script, similar to the way you removed all the network drives on a computer?-- WDC(image) (image) (image) Hey, WDC. If you’ve been following our daily TechEd preview report, then you know that the Scripting Guys have ...