Hi, Normally Id be using GPP all the way, but the issue I have (that’s not of my making) is:
We have two print servers. One is a 2003 server, one a 2012. The 2003 is being retired the 2012 is to take over its role. All printers in the building, which is about 100 odd, across 7 floors and close to 200 users are replicated across both servers. There is also the problem that lots of users have old ghost printers, as well as the fact that I need to get them. So if I have a user with two printers oldps\print1 and oldps\print2 I need them to have newps\print1 and newps\print2. Then imagine that with users that have 7 or more print queues etc. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: 28 August 2014 16:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to be able to point something at any PC on my domain and see > what printers it has installed on it. You don't describe your environment, but any Windows that's reasonably recent will have useful tools in C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\ The "prnmngr.vbs" script in particular will list printer objects, and allow you to add/remove them. There is an "-s" switch which lets you run it against remote print servers ("server" meaning "computer" in this case). This is generally only useful for printers with a machine-local port connection (but that includes IP ports). > This should include Network printers, local printers and PDF writers etc. Network printer connections (via Windows shares) are a property of the user, not the system. > Id like the ability to remove printers (say ghosted ones), and also > manually add printers off the network. You're prolly better off using Group Policy Preferences to push printers to users. But the above-mentioned scripts can do it, too. -- Ben SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
