how to tell how many printers are installed on the vm servers ?

Silver Contributor

Nov 09, 2023

there is a way you can try to use a script to see how many printers are installed on each VM server.
Here is a PowerShell script that you can use:

# Get a list of all servers
$servers = Get-VM

# Get a list of all printers on each server
foreach ($server in $servers) {
    $printers = Get-Printer -ComputerName $server

    # Count the number of printers
    $count = $printers.Count

    # Write the number of printers to a log file
    Add-Content -Path "C:\PrinterCount.log" -Value "$server has $count printers installed."
}

Here’s how it works:

- It first retrieves a list of all servers using the Get-VM command.
- Then, for each server in the list, it retrieves a list of all printers installed on that server using the Get-Printer -ComputerName $server command.
- It counts the number of printers using the .Count property of the list of printers.
- Finally, it writes the number of printers installed on each server to a log file located at C:\PrinterCount.log

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