Today we’ll talk about opportunities for managing printers and their drivers from the command prompt in Windows 10/ 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2/ 2016. We will consider how to install a new local or network printer, print driver, create a TCP/IP print port, print a test page, delete a driver or printer using simple Windows commands. It can be useful in various scenarios unattended printer installation in SCCM tasks, logon scripts of the group policies, and on the servers running in the Server Core mode.
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Enable Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on Windows Server?
October 20, 2022Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have NTFS permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them.…
Let’s look at how to create a simple administrator notification system when someone adds a new user to the important Active Directory security group. For example you want to track…
- Windows 10
Error 0x80073CFA: Can’t Uninstall Apps using Remove-AppxPackage in Windows 10
December 12, 2018Starting from Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update), several new built-in universal apps appeared in the system and you cannot remove them using the standard procedure. For example, when you try…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
How to Get My Public IP Address with PowerShell
October 24, 2023You can use a simple PowerShell command to find out the current public IP address that your Windows computer uses to access the Internet. There are a large number of…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Remote IIS Management in Windows Server 2016/2012 R2
January 18, 2023A web-server Internet Information Service in Windows 2016 / 2012 / R2, like previous IIS versions, can be managed remotely. In fact, it is convenient enough to manage multiple IIS…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
“Downloading updates 0%” Issue on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
May 1, 2020I have come across an interesting “feature” or “bug” in Windows Update service on Windows Server 2016 (Windows 10 RTM). If you’re not using an internal WSUS server and your…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to See Number of Active User Sessions on IIS site?
May 19, 2021How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…
On one of the computers with newly installed Windows 10, a user began to complain of constant hanging up and slow work of the OS. The Task Manager shows that…
In one of the previous articles we have described the installation of a WSUS server on Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 in details. After you have configured the update…