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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Pages 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment 2. Managing Windows Networking 3. Managing Windows Active Directory 4. Managing Windows Storage 5. Managing Shared Data 6. Managing Windows Update 7. Managing Printing 8. Introducing Containers 9. Managing Windows Internet Information Server 10. Managing Desired State Configuration 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Managing Performance and Usage 14. Troubleshooting Windows Server Index

Printing a test page


There are occasions when you may wish to print a test page on a printer; for example, after you change the toner or printer ink on a physical printer or after changing the print driver (as shown in the Changing printer drivers recipe). In those cases, the test page helps you to ensure that the printer is working properly.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the PSRV print server that you set up in the Installing and sharing printers recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Get the printer objects from WMI:

    $Printers = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Printer
  2. Display the number of printers defined on PSRV:

    '{0} Printers defined on this system' -f $Printers.Count
  3. Get the sales group printer WMI object:

    $Printer = $Printers |
      Where-Object Name -eq "SalesPrinter1"
  4. Display the printer's details:

    $Printer | Format-Table -AutoSize
  5. Print a test page:

    Invoke-CimMethod -InputObject $Printer -MethodName PrintTestPage

How it works…

In step 1, you used Get-CimInstance to return all the printers defined on this system...

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