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Powershell, Create Printer / Port - Need to assign existing port, not create one
These are all 2008 R2 server so they don't have the new PowerShell 4.0 Printer cmdlets so that's not an option.
I grabbed a powershell script from the internet to quickly add IP printer queues across multiple machine. We have 3 enterprise print servers and then 4 Epic EPS servers. Essentially, a printer will be added to 1 of the 3 enterprise servers and all 4 Epic EPS print servers. If the printer and port does not exist, this script and accompanying CSV file works very well! But our Epic set requires us to make separate objects with same printer / port to denote trays.
Ex: Printer1, Printer1_T2, Printer1_RX
It's the same physical printer and port, just a different printer name. The issue with the script is that I cannot seem to add a printer and assign it an existing port without it taking over the previously created printer object in the code so you end up with just one printer object, typically the last one in the CSV. So no matter what happens, it only ever creates just one printer object per server no matter how many different objects with different names you try to create.
I've experimented with leaving the "PORT" cell blank on the secondary named printer, but it still will not create a new printer object. Still just runs over and refreshed the first made object. Had tried running the script with the main object name, then changing the CSV and running again separately. Same issue.
Any PowerShell coding help would be awesome. I'm attaching the ps1 and csv for examples.
add-printer-PS1.TXT
addprinters.csv
I grabbed a powershell script from the internet to quickly add IP printer queues across multiple machine. We have 3 enterprise print servers and then 4 Epic EPS servers. Essentially, a printer will be added to 1 of the 3 enterprise servers and all 4 Epic EPS print servers. If the printer and port does not exist, this script and accompanying CSV file works very well! But our Epic set requires us to make separate objects with same printer / port to denote trays.
Ex: Printer1, Printer1_T2, Printer1_RX
It's the same physical printer and port, just a different printer name. The issue with the script is that I cannot seem to add a printer and assign it an existing port without it taking over the previously created printer object in the code so you end up with just one printer object, typically the last one in the CSV. So no matter what happens, it only ever creates just one printer object per server no matter how many different objects with different names you try to create.
I've experimented with leaving the "PORT" cell blank on the secondary named printer, but it still will not create a new printer object. Still just runs over and refreshed the first made object. Had tried running the script with the main object name, then changing the CSV and running again separately. Same issue.
Any PowerShell coding help would be awesome. I'm attaching the ps1 and csv for examples.
add-printer-PS1.TXT
addprinters.csv
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