Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script
After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...
Tag: Printers
Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...
Scripting printer permissions
I will probably need to refer to this myself, but maybe someone else will find this useful. Still working through some print queue management tasks, I needed to...
Printer management with PowerShell
I find the printer management scripts included with Server 2008 bothersome. However, until we get to Server 2012, with its shiny new printer management cmdlets,...
Printer drivers and architectures with PowerShell
We have a number of 32-bit Windows 2008 print servers that we want to migrate to Windows Server 2012, for the printer management PowerShell cmdlets, among other...
Use it up – Brother HL-3070CW Toner
Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without. There are some things that we can’t really do without. But good old Yankee thrift pains me every time I hav...
Monday – 2009-09-28
Today’s issues: Backup issues Shared folder quotas Printer configurations Data execution protection I created a Server 2008 x64 guest for managing 64-bit driv...
backups – Bad and Good
We’ve been working with our backup vendor to address some shortcomings of their product as it relates to Windows 2008 system recover. This was precipitated by...
Worklog – Town Meeting Day
Need to expand storage on WinDB; Kent is working on the FC storage. Documentation regarding printer installation. Added a How-To wiki library to the AD Sharepoi...