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Friday, May 22, 2009 9:44 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (05/22/09)

How Can I Determine if a Particular Windows Feature Is Installed? Hey, Scripting Guy! I am new to Windows PowerShell scripting and have a little experience with WMI thanks to your Windows PowerShell Scriptomatic tool. I'm trying to determine whether a
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:25 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Perform More Than One Action with the Win32_Printer WMI Class?

Hey, Scripting Guy! The Win32_Printer WMI class has several methods that are listed in it. But I am not sure how to best use these methods from inside a Windows PowerShell script. I do not want to create four different scripts to send a test page, clean
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:24 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Remove Old Printer Connections, List Printers, and Set New Default Printers?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Well it finally happened. Our budget request for new printers was approved. We have gotten them unboxed, distributed, and hooked up to the LAN. We have even downloaded the latest drivers from the Internet, and updated the firmware
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:24 PM

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

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
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Monday, May 18, 2009 8:23 PM

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

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
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Friday, March 20, 2009 9:36 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (03/20/09)

Troubleshooting an Active Directory HTA Hey, Scripting Guy! I have created an HTML Application (HTA) to prompt a support person for their administrative ID and password and a computer name that they wish to delete from Active Directory. The script uses
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:32 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Document Printers?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I do not know about you, but does it seem that printers are a major pain in the dark side? I mean, they seem to multiply faster than bacteria. They are all just different enough to cause maintenance problems, and forget about trying
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Friday, November 21, 2008 9:27 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (11/21/08)

Troubleshooting the “Object Is Required” Error Hey, Scripting Guy! I am having a problem with my script. It keeps coming back and saying that an object is required. Why does it do that? - KA Hi KA, "Object required" is very generic. It means that (wait
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Friday, November 02, 2007 12:23 AM

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

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 Hey, WDC. If you’ve been following our daily TechEd preview
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Monday, August 14, 2006 10:55 AM

How Can I List All the Printers on a Remote Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the printers – both local printers and network printers – on a remote computer? -- CH Hey, CH. You know, back when he worked at the University of Washington the Scripting Guy who writes this column was asked to speak
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:48 AM

How Can I Set the Default Printer Based on the IP Address of the Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set the default printer based on the IP address of the computer? -- TT Hey, TT. You’ll have to forgive us for being a little distracted this morning. Last night the Scripting Guy who writes this column went to the gym with
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:23 PM

How Can I Disable the Keep Printed Documents Attribute on a Printer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I disable the Keep Printed Documents attribute on a printer? -- JJ 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
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:37 AM

How Can I Tell Which Users are Connected to a Print Queue?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which users are connected to a print queue? -- RE 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
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Monday, January 09, 2006 12:55 PM

How Can I Remove All the Black-and-White Printers on a Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! On a Windows XP computer, how can I remove all the black-and-white printers, leaving only color printers? -- JL Hey, JL. You know, in one classic episode of the Simpsons, Bart, in the throes of a sugar high, joins the Junior Campers.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:58 PM

How Can I Purge a Print Queue on a Print Server?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge a print queue on a print server? I need to do this on both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. -- KD Hey, KD. And hey: no fair! Lots of times we take the easy way out in this column: we provide an answer that works
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