Print Spooler Service

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Hi All,

I was preparing a script that can achieve three points about print spooler service. I have scripts for each of the items in the bullet point below, but I would like to combine all three steps into one script. Could some help to correct it please ? Thanks in advance !

• The script should verify the list of servers and provide the report, so I can identify which are holding printers/print server.
• Remaining servers, I need to stop and disable the spooler service

Final report of status of service.

Thanks again!
Shyam.

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@syam.myinbox Welcome to PowerShell.org forums

Yes its possible, you can have a wrapper script which calls all three in a sequence or have code for all three scripts in one big script.

Have tried to make it in a single script ? are you getting any error ?

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Hi Kvprasoon,

Thank you for reaching out.

I just could prepare only these two script, not a single one. To be honest I am not sure, how to make it as a single one.

  1. First one for finding all servers in the domain with print spooler service running.

Get-ADObject -Filter 'objectClass -eq "printQueue"' -Properties ShortServerName | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ShortServerName -Unique | Get-ADComputer | Format-Table | Out-File C:\temp\printers.csv

  1. Second one for disabling the print spooler service and then verifying the current status with an output.
$servers=get-content -path "c:\temp\ServerList.txt"
 
foreach ($server in $servers) { 
Set-Service -Name Spooler -Status Stopped -StartupType Disabled -Computername $server
Get-Service -Name Spooler -Computername $server | Select name,status,starttype  | Out-File “C:\temp\PrinterStatus.csv”
 }

Could you help me compile this into one please ?
Thanks a lot.

Shyam.

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You are almost there. Are these two scripts or you execute copy pasting it to console ?

You don’t have any variables used, hence just copy past these two in a file and save it as a yourscriptname.ps1 and execute.

Note: Please try to format the code using the code formating option while posting. Its at the top for the posting editor.

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Kvprasoon has a good point. It also looks like you will need to change:

Out-File C:\temp\printers.csv

To:

`Out-File C:\temp\printers.txt`

Then change:

$servers=get-content -path "c:\temp\ServerList.txt"

To:

$servers=get-content -path "c:\temp\printers.txt"
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