The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.
New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I disable the Keep Printed Documents attribute on a printer?-- JJ(image) (image) (image)
Hey, JJ. You didn’t mention which operating system you’re trying to do this on, but we hope it’s a Windows XP or Windows Servers 2003 computer. Why? Well, on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 machine, this is...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which users are connected to a print queue?-- RE(image) (image) (image)
Hey, RE. You know, if your printers are anything like the ones the Scripting Guys are used to working with then it’s easy to tell which users are connected to a print queue: all you have to do is walk into the printer room ...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I receive notification any time something is printed to a particular printer?-- IL(image) (image) (image)
Hey, IL. You know, one of the Scripting Guys once had a summer job in an organization where the only decent printer in the entire building was kept in the administrative assistant’s office. We can ...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge all the print jobs on a Windows 2000 print server?-- KC(image) (image) (image)
Hey, KC. This is one of those questions we hate, not because we don’t have an answer for it - we do - but because we have to temporarily abandon one of the core tenets of the Scripting Guy Way of Life. That tenet - ...