Require a list of installed printers on workstations

tsklierenko · 2019-05-07T17:03:06.000Z

Hi all,

I am not overly proficient in PowerShell so I am hoping somebody can help me.

I need to create a script that will provide me with a list of all installed printers on all workstations in our environment. I have found the following script via another link, however it doesn’t seem to be working for me:

Get-Content -Path ListOfComputers.txt | ForEach-Object {
Get-WmiObject -class Win32_printer -computername $_ | ft name, systemName, shareName >> C:\result.txt
}

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Taras

Neally · 2019-05-07T17:04:47.000Z

anonpryme:

however it doesn’t seem to be working

Can you elaborate??

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biscuitking · 2019-05-07T17:08:09.000Z

Just to make sure the obvious isn’t the case, you did create a file called “ListOfComputers.txt” that contains all the computers in your environment, correct?

Oh, and you may actually want to put the actual path to the file there as well, i.e. -Path “c:\temp\ListOfComputers.txt”

brad · 2019-05-07T17:08:40.000Z

have you enabled/allowed wmi connention for those systems?

what errors are you receiving?

tsklierenko · 2019-05-07T17:09:05.000Z

I did, yes. I should have specified, but don’t blame you for asking.

brad · 2019-05-07T17:12:11.000Z

Get-WmiObject -class Win32_printer -computername <enternamehere>

I also like the start with the basics of a script, does this line return a valid response when ran against a single machine?

tsklierenko · 2019-05-07T17:12:52.000Z

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brad · 2019-05-07T17:16:50.000Z

looks like those systems are not set up to allow remote wmi connections Setting up a Remote WMI Connection - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn

Jrx1216 · 2019-05-07T17:17:15.000Z

anonpryme:

Well, I see access denied, are you running this as an admin (right click > run as admin on powershell)?

EDIT: Also, what Br@d said, haha. I had a hard time reading that screenshot after it was compressed

@brad

tsklierenko · 2019-05-07T17:17:46.000Z

I am, yes.

tsklierenko · 2019-05-07T17:18:39.000Z

Ah, so it’s being blocked. Not just me, then.

christopher001 · 2019-05-07T18:11:32.000Z

good ole cmd can do that

wmic printer get name, default

Will show you all printers and whichever printer is the default. no elevation required.

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You can go a step further and save as computer name in a shared drive and automate it on startup with a batch file if you want. Then you will have a list generated of all of the machines you can inventory at your leisure.