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leoLR
leoLR

Reputation: 487

win32_printer not appear in wmiobject (Windows Power Shell)

I have an issue on a PC with Windows 7 Professional. I need to list the network printers in my local network, I tried to run the list object classes in PowerShell with the command:

Get-WMIObject -List | where {$_.name -match 'win32_printer'}

This shows empty, any suggestion to fix this problem?

EDIT: My script for get the network printers is this: 

Set-Location -Path C:\; get-WmiObject -class Win32_printer | ConvertTo-Json | Set-Content -Encoding utf8 C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\project\\view\\data\\printers.json

I need to list the printers in a json file, In my PC runs well, but in the PC where i need to run this script fail

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1500

Answers (1)

BenH
BenH

Reputation: 10044

Your command list out all WMI classes then filters those classes showing all of them that contain Win32_Printer. It seems that you want use:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Printer

This will list all printers that are connected to your computer (Not all of them that are on your network). Note that it will only show network printer connected to your user account.

If you are looking for all printers on your network you could list all of the queues published in Active Directory

Get-ADObject -Filter "ObjectCategory -eq 'printQueue'"

Note: This command requires the AD module from RSAT

Upvotes: 1

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