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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition
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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

by Thomas Lee
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
542 pages
10h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

Reporting on printer usage

Knowing who is using your printing devices and how much can be important in terms of capacity planning.

By default, Windows does not log printer usage information. But it is simple to turn on this logging and use the results.

Getting ready

You use this recipe on the PSRV host.

How to do it...

  1. Run wevtutil.exe to turn on printer monitoring on the PSRV host:
    $LogName = 'Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational'
    wevtutil.exe sl $LogName /enabled:true
  2. Define a function that returns objects for each printer job completed on the server:
    Function Get-PrinterUsage { # 2.1 Get events from the print server event log $LogName = 'Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational' $Dps = Get-WinEvent -LogName $LogName | Where-Object ID -eq 307 ...
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ISBN: 9781789808537