I had a customer which had deployed printers from a legacy print server utilising scripts. They have recently built a new 2012 R2 print server where they deployed the printers utilising Print Management Console and Group Policy.
All printers were redeployed from the new print server.
The customer however had a number of printers setup on workstations still pointing to the legacy print server. As such they wanted to remove all printers deployed from the hostname of the legacy print server.
The following PowerShell script achieves this and can be easily deployed with Group Policy. Simply replace "PRINTSERVER" with the name of your print server and then deploy the PowerShell script.
$PrintServer = "\\PRINTSERVER"
$Printers = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer
ForEach ($Printer in $Printers) {
If ($Printer.SystemName -like "$PrintServer") {
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection($($Printer.Name))
}
}
All printers were redeployed from the new print server.
The customer however had a number of printers setup on workstations still pointing to the legacy print server. As such they wanted to remove all printers deployed from the hostname of the legacy print server.
The following PowerShell script achieves this and can be easily deployed with Group Policy. Simply replace "PRINTSERVER" with the name of your print server and then deploy the PowerShell script.
$PrintServer = "\\PRINTSERVER"
$Printers = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer
ForEach ($Printer in $Printers) {
If ($Printer.SystemName -like "$PrintServer") {
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection($($Printer.Name))
}
}
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