RE: Need testers for printer management tool

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From: John Whitehead (JohnWhitehead_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:01:09 -0800

Bill,
     Can I be one of your testers for these Printer managemtn tools? E-mail
is: Union70@hotmail.com

Thanks,
 John

"Bill Stewart" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have written a set of tools that I hope will help windows system
> administrators with printer management.
>
> Specifically, it deals with managing per-machine printers. For those
> that have not used per-machine printers, they're network printers that
> appear no matter who is logged onto a machine. The ability to add a
> printer to a computer instead of just to users' profiles has saved me a
> lot of time and frustration.
>
> The package consists of two ActiveX DLLs, a GUI tool, and a set of
> scripts that manage per-machine printers. Here are some of the features:
>
> * Add, remove, and enumerate per-machine printers on the local or a
> remote computer
> * Enumerate print shares on one or more print servers
> * Restart the spooler service on the local or remote computer
> * Enumerate and remove per-user printers for the current user (in case
> you only want users to access per-machine printers)
> * Set the default printer for the current user, or by adding a registry
> entry, set the default printer for every user that logs onto a machine
>
> System requirements are Windows 2000 or later; license is copyrighted
> freeware. Documentation is in HTML format.
>
> I've been using it pretty successfully for a while on my own network, so
> I thought I'd make it publicly available. If you are interested in
> testing this software for me in your own environment, reply in one of
> these newsgroups or send me an e-mail: bill.stewart@frenchdomortuary.com
> (remove "do") and I'll provide you a download location.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Stewart
>



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