Printer Management Using PowerShell

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

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re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

Shweta118 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:55:28 GMT

Hi,

I need a script to change the printer settings mode to duplex or both sides. This will help me in saving paper, cause accidendly a couple of times I have sent the print job without changing the settings.

Thanks in advance...

-Shweta

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

bdailey — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:01:32 GMT

Justin -

I get an error at the following line of your script:

$q2 = New-Object System.Printing.PrintQueue $server,$q.Name,$queuePerms

The error reads something like this:

"Attempt by security transparent method 'MS.Internal.PrintWin32Thunk.PrinterDefaults.Dispose(Boolean)' to access security critical method 'MS.Internal.PrintWin32Thunk.PrinterDefaults.InternalDispose(Boolean)' failed."

I've googled this and found that it's a known bug in the .NET v4.0 assembly System.Printing, and the workarounds I've found do not work for me... Any pointers?

Thanks,

Brendan

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

Justin Hutchings [MSFT] — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:15:47 GMT

Be sure to check out the new PowerShell scripts provided in Windows 8 Consumer preview for printer management. technet.microsoft.com/.../hh918357.aspx

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

bodum1 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:55:46 GMT

Can someone please provide assistance in adapting this script to check the Printer Driver version?

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

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re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

Print Blog — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:46:10 GMT

Jeffrey, thanks a lot. That is helpful content!

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

Jeffrey S. Patton — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:19 GMT

I wrote up some stuff, hope you enjoy

gallery.technet.microsoft.com/.../PrintServerManagementps1-7676ed28

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

Jeffrey S. Patton — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:42:18 GMT

Nice post, I tweaked the code a bit so I could pull queues from my print server ps but am getting an error.

$host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Printing

$server = new-object System.Printing.PrintServer("\\ps")

$queues = $server.GetPrintQueues(@([System.Printing.EnumeratedPrintQueueTypes]::Shared))

Error:

Add-Type : Length cannot be less than zero.

Parameter name: length

At line:1 char:9

+ Add-Type <<<< -AssemblyName System.Printing

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-Type], ArgumentOutOfRangeException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand

I'm running this on windows 7 x64 enterprise. I have all the rsat tools installed, but I figure I must be missing something.

re: Printer Management Using PowerShell

JoshGav — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:36 GMT

The scripts in this post are a good start, but I couldn't actually make things work till I did the following:

$host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Printing

$permAdminServer = ([System.Printing.PrintSystemDesiredAccess] "AdministrateServer")

$permAdminPrinter = ([System.Printing.PrintSystemDesiredAccess] "AdministratePrinter")

$ps = New-Object System.Printing.LocalPrintServer $permAdminServer

$queue = $ps.GetPrintQueues() | Select-Object -Last 1

$queue2 = New-Object System.Printing.PrintQueue $ps,$queue.Name,$permAdminPrinter