Removing printers from Computers using the Printer Script

[newpersn]

Hi,

 

We map our printers via a vb script.

 

During the summer we set up a new print server and killed off the old one.

 

Most of the computers are still setting the old print servers printers as the default but installing the new printers from the new system.

 

The old Print server is now turn off and we need a way to delete the old printers from all the computers/users

 

Any help?

[Steve21]

You can either add at the start of your map printers a delete part for all network printers, or just deploy a GPO to delete all printers first? Guess it depends if there's a reason you're using scripts still

 

edit - Random stolen etc -

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
   ("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Network = True")

For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
   objPrinter.Delete_
Next

 

Steve

[Duke5A]

Do it this way so you don't nuke every installed printer:

 

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Printer",,48)
	
On Error Resume Next
	
For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
	If InStr(LCase(objPrinter.Name), "OLDSERVERNAMEHERE") Then
		objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection objPrinter.Name
	End If
Next

If Error <> 0 Then
	'Just catch the error, moving on
Else
	'Nothing to see here folks, move along.
End If

 

Just replace OLDSERVERNAMEHERE with the old printer server's name.

[Arthur]

Should you need it, here's a one line PowerShell script that deletes all printers that reference an old printer server. I had to use this recently myself when GPP didn't work.

 

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer -Namespace 'root\CIMV2' -Filter "SystemName='\\\\[color="#FF0000"]OLDSERVERNAMEHERE[/color]'" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach { $_.delete() }

 

Much simpler than VBScript!

[CHiLL]

I know this is an old thread, but this is exactly what I am trying to do! I've got this script to delete all network printers:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Printer | where{$_.Network -Contains 'true'} | foreach{$_.delete()}

It works without issues on my machine, however it will not work at all if the user logged on is a member of staff or student. I'm thinking its down to permissions, but I don't know where to start.

 

Also, if a member of staff or a student has a PS script running as a Logon script...are they able to use the ADSI feature by default, or do they not have permissions to that either?

[HPlum78]

remove-printer depends on O/S I think its native in 2012/ 8 and don't know if it is part of the latest WMF.