I've been asked to do some analysis regarding varying aspects of my organization's printers. I can connect to the print server via windows explorer by simply typing in the address (\\52zhtv-qs-201v\Printers) and see a list of (all 962) printers in the organization. What I'd really like is to get the information that I can see there (see attached screenshot) into Excel or Access so that I can manipulate it....especially the model information from either the Comments or Model column. I'm generally pretty good with Excel VBA...if these were files in a directory I'd be set. But I have no idea how to retrieve information from a print server. And typing it in manually isn't an attractive option. Ideally I'd just like to produce a text file that contains the information you see in the explorer...like if you could do get-childitem \\52zhtv-gs-201v\Printers -verbose > printers.txt and get this listing in a file I could import to Excel.
