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Pawdady
Pawdady

Reputation: 31

PowerShell 4.0 Add-Printer

I've just installed PowerShell 4.0 on my Win7 SP1 box, (up from the 2.0 native version). PowerShell 3.0 was supposed to have included a bunch of handy printer-specific functions such as Add-Printer, Add-PrinterDriver, etc., but running a 'Get-Command' on my box doesn't show any of the commands I'm looking for.

Do I have to install PowerShell 3.0 to get them?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8124

Answers (2)

Sushant
Sushant

Reputation: 21

PowerShell to share and unshare the printers http://winplat.net/2015/12/04/powershell-to-share-and-unshared-the-printers/

To share a printer

Set-Printer -Name DummyPrinter -Shared $True -Published $True -ShareName MyDummyPrinter

To share a printer on remote computer

Set-Printer -Name DummyPrinter -Shared $True -Published $True -ShareName MyDummyPrinter -ComuterName PrintSvr01

Where, DummyPrinter is the name of the print queue, MyDummyPrinter is the desired shared name and PrintSvr01 is the remote server that hosts the printer.

Please note, the parameter -Publish enabled the option ‘List in Directory’. You can omit if you do not want the option.

Multiple Printers?

get-printer -ComputerName PrintSvr01 | foreach{Set-Printer -name $_.name -Shared $true -ShareName $_.name -Published $true -ComputerName PrintSvr01}

To unshare a printer

To unshare, set the –Shared parameter to $False Set-Printer -Name DummyPrinter -Shared $True -ComuterName PrintSvr01

Upvotes: -1

Adil Hindistan
Adil Hindistan

Reputation: 6605

"PrintManagement" module, which includes the commands you mentioned was available with PowerShell v3 on Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 In a sense, it's tied to the Operating System, not directly to the PowerShell version.

    CommandType     Name                                               ModuleName                                                                         
-----------     ----                                               ----------                                                                         
Function        Add-Printer                                        printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Add-PrinterDriver                                  printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Add-PrinterPort                                    printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-PrintConfiguration                             printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-Printer                                        printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-PrinterDriver                                  printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-PrinterPort                                    printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-PrinterProperty                                printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Get-PrintJob                                       printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Read-PrinterNfcTag                                 printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Remove-Printer                                     printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Remove-PrinterDriver                               printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Remove-PrinterPort                                 printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Remove-PrintJob                                    printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Rename-Printer                                     printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Restart-PrintJob                                   printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Resume-PrintJob                                    printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Set-PrintConfiguration                             printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Set-Printer                                        printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Set-PrinterProperty                                printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Suspend-PrintJob                                   printmanagement                                                                    
Function        Write-PrinterNfcTag                                printmanagement

Upvotes: 4

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