Filtered articles: "Printing"

Filtered articles: "Printing"

Script Deletes Orphaned Printer Ports

The script published in this article was kindly contributed by Bo Riis, a sysadmin working at Danish hosting company dandomain. Here is what he writes about it:

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PowerShell Script Switches Printer Configurations Between Sites

Attending the community conference PubForum E2E Conference has many benefits, the biggest is in my opinion getting to know many very talented and very nice people. One of them, Ton de Vreede, recently sent me a PowerShell script he had written which I am happy to publish here.

What Does it Do?

DefPrn.ps1 saves and loads the configurations of mapped network printers as well as the default printer. The clever thing is that it is designed to work with multiple configurations. That makes it easy to have different configurations per site/location.

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New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix
Published by Helge Klein on 02/11/2010 | 8 Comments | 7,668 Views

Windows General

Good info for troubleshooting DFS-Namespaces in the MS KB: Storage locations, inconsistencies and how to deal with them. Complex passwords and security guidelines for end users? No, thank you, says MS researcher. I agree.

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Performance Monitor Woes
Published by Nicholas Dille on 04/17/2008 | 1 Comments | 7,142 Views

Recently, I have been working with Performance Monitor a lot and have stumbled across several peculiarities. This article describes how PerfMon behaves on Windows x64 and how counter DLLs are managed by Windows as well as the difference in behaviour of real time monitoring and scheduled traces.

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