Printers

[tdewar1]

We are in the process of migrating from printing to HP printers to Panasonic Copiers. I was wondering if I could set up some kind of report on default printer to help me determine which machines have already been done. Would that be possible in Lansweeper?

EDIT: I found some new information since asking this question, but I need help putting it all together.

I discovered that the registry key the default printer is set at is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device
So, I added that to Lansweeper registry monitoring.

I also discovered that it is of the format "\\LN014\LN.S651.CSP001.HPLJ5,winspool,Ne01:", where the first part is the actual printer share, then the spooler and finally the connection, e.g. network or parallel port.

So, now I need help figuring out the query to report on the default printers.

[thoromega]

Is there a example that you can post that would show people who still have printers mapped to an old print server EG ServerOld instead of Server New?

[tdewar1]

OK, it is pretty primitive, but it works for us. The view I came up with is:

SELECT Computername, [Value]
FROM dbo.tblRegistry
WHERE (Valuename = 'Device')

Hopefully someone else will find it useful.