Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

On Your Own: Lab 36 Monitoring Print Jobs

In this lab, you will practice monitoring print jobs by using the Win32_PrintJob WMI class.

Lab Instructions

1. Open Notepad.exe.

2. Set Option Explicit.

3. Save your script as Lab36Solution.vbs.

4. Declare the following variables: strComputer, wmiNS, wmiQuery, objWMIService, colItems, and objItem. Your Header information section will look like the following:

   Option Explicit
   'On Error Resume Next
   Dim strComputer
   Dim wmiNS
   Dim wmiQuery
   Dim objWMIService
   Dim colItems
   Dim objItem

5. Assign the value "." to the variable strComputer.

6. Assign the value "\root\cimv2" to the variable wmiNS.

7. Assign the value "Select * from Win32_PrintJob" to the wmiQuery variable. The code for steps 5, 6, and 7 is shown here:

   strComputer = "." wmiNS = "\root\cimv2" ...