Collect Network Printer Information

[FN-GM]

Hello,

 

The organisation I work for has previous manually mapped printers for users. The printers were spread around 15 servers. We now want to consolidate these down to 1 server and map the printers using Group Policy Preferences.

 

Once we start to de-commision servers there will be a large amount of disruption. So I was wondering if anyone has a script I could run at login that will collect what network printers a user is connected to and then store this information in a central CSV file please? Based of this information we can then configure the Group Policy printer mapping and keep disruption to a minimum.

 

Thanks for any help

Edited September 23, 2019 by FN-GM

[stevec_]

Providing all your clients are on at least Windows 8 the following quick and dirty script should do the trick:

 

Get-Printer | Where-Object { $_.Type -eq "Connection" } | Export-Csv -Path "\\path\to\printers.csv" -Append

[FN-GM]

Providing all your clients are on at least Windows 8

 

Thank you. I wish that was the case. We still have a number of Windows 7 machines in service.

[stevec_]

In that case the following should work for you:

 

Get-WmiObject win32_printer -Filter "SystemName!='$($env:COMPUTERNAME)'" | Select-Object Name,Location,SystemName,ShareName | Export-Csv -Path "\\path\to\printers.csv" -Append