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Network Printer Management from Command Prompt

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rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry

printui.dll is an library for automated network printer management tasks with features used by the printer configuration dialog boxes. These features can also be called from a script or command-line batch file, or run interactively through the command prompt.

printui.dll runs with rundll32.exe to provide tools for demanding tasks, add printers, manage, delete, and add network printer connection.

Network Printer Management printui.dll

Open printer server properties

Printer server properties open rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /s
Open properties of printer server
Properties of Printer Server Section Drivers

Network printer management use printui.dll Connect to the network printer:

rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server\LaserJet

The LaserJet network printer which is shared on the SERVER, is installed on the client computer and connected to the server.

Setup printer using driver INF-file:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "AddressLabel" /f C:\Driver\Zebra\ZBRN\ZBRN.inf /r "10.10.10.89" /m "ZDesigner GK420t" /Z

/if Installs printer using the specified INF-file
/b Basic printer name AddressLabel
/f Path to the printer driver INF-file
/r Portname or IP address
/m Model name of the printer driver from the INF-file
/Z Share this printer, use only with option “/if”

Delete local printer driver:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dd /m "LaserJet" /q

/dd Deletes the local printer driver
/m Model name of the printer driver
/q Do not display possible error messages

Delete network printer connection:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n "LaserJet" /q

/dn Deletes the network printer connection.
/n The name of the printer.

  Help on printui.dll is get with the following command in the command prompt.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

Network Printer Management Batch example:

Example add network printer connection using printui.dll run from Loginscript.

@echo off
@REM Batch Network printer connection
if /i %computername:~0,2%==BE goto Bern 
if /i %computername:~0,2%==BS goto Basel
if /i %computername:~0,7%==SPECTRE goto LAPTOP
goto END
:Bern
@REM Network printer connection Bern
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\SERVER\LaserJet_BE
goto END
:Basel
@REM Network printer connection Basel
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\SERVER\LaserJet_BS
goto END
:LAPTOP
@REM Network printer connection SPECTRE
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\SERVER\OfficeJet_HO
goto END
:END

Conclusion

I hope this post can help with network printer management using the printui.dll, a library for automated Windows network printer management tasks with functions used by the printer configuration dialog boxes. These functions are also called from scripts or a command-line batch file, or run interactively from the command prompt.

Create Shortcut using Visual Basic Script

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Create shortcut on desktop with Visual Basic Script

Visual Basic Script can help wherever automated tasks need to be used. Batch files may not always be appropriate, and the use of Group Policy may not always be available, where a Visual Basic Script can do this, for example, to provide shortcuts to applications.

create-shortcut.vbs

The following VB-Script creates a shortcut on the desktop, here for example to open the Windows Calculator.

Insert VB-Script lines by  Copy Paste into Notepad and save them as create-shortcut.vbs, then douple-click to execute the VB-Script will create the shortcut on desktop. 
' VBScript to created shortcut
Const strProgramTitle = "Shortcut to Calculator"
Const strProgram = "%SystemRoot%\System32\calc.exe"
Const strWorkDir = "%USERPROFILE%"
Dim objShortcut, objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell")
strLPath = objShell.SpecialFolders ("Desktop")
Set objShortcut = objShell.CreateShortcut (strLPath & "\" & strProgramTitle & ".lnk")
objShortcut.TargetPath = strProgram
objShortcut.WorkingDirectory = strWorkDir
objShortcut.Description = strProgramTitle
objShortcut.Save
WScript.Quit

  Last but not least, enjoy to edit the Const lines in the script to use any other applications.

Now double-clicking the shortcut on the desktop opens the Windows Calculator.

C:\> cscript //Nologo //B create-shortcut.vbs

This VBScript can be started with cscript from the command prompt or from a batch.

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition

VBScript (“Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition”) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers without error handling and with subroutines and other advanced programming constructs. It can give the user complete control over many aspects of their computing environment.

VBScript uses the Component Object Model to access elements of the environment within which it is running. For example, the FileSystemObject (FSO) is used to create, read, update and delete files. VBScript has been installed by default in every desktop release of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98. In Windows Server since Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack; and optionally with Windows CE (depending on the device it is installed on).

Microsoft VBScript is a general-purpose, lightweight and active scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. Nowadays, VBScript is the primary scripting language for Quick Test Professional (QTP), which is a test automation tool. This tutorial will teach you how to use VBScript in your day-to-day life of any Web-based or automation project development.