Default Printer Report

When our build team builds new machines for users, we provide a convenience to the user of letting them know what their default printer is. I wrote this script that will parse through all user profiles in HKU to find the default printer of each profile. It will then write the results to the screen if the script is manually executed, while also writing to the DefaultPrinter.CSV file located at the default directory of each user profile. This allows for the script to be deployed through SCCM, or be executed remotely or locally with PowerShell. The reason I have it write to a CSV file instead of reporting to SCCM is that not everyone has access to SCCM and for universal compatibility, not all companies have SCCM.

I deployed this script through a package in SCCM that is scheduled to execute once a week. Every time this script executes, it will replace the current file with a new one.

You can download the script from here.

 <#  
      .SYNOPSIS  
           Default Printer Report  
        
      .DESCRIPTION  
           This script will retrieve a list of all user profiles and report to a text file inside each user profile what the default printer is.   
        
      .NOTES  
           ===========================================================================  
           Created with:     SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2017 v5.4.142  
           Created on:       2/4/2019 8:56 AM  
           Created by:       Mick Pletcher  
           Filename:         DefaultPrinterReport.ps1  
           ===========================================================================  
 #>  
   
 [CmdletBinding()]  
 param ()  
   
 $Profiles = (Get-ChildItem -Path REGISTRY::HKEY_USERS -Exclude *Classes | Where-Object {$_.Name -like '*S-1-5-21*'}).Name  
 $ProfileArray = @()  
 foreach ($Item in $Profiles) {  
      $object = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSObject  
      $object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Profile -Value ((Get-ItemProperty -Path ('REGISTRY::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\' + ($Item.split('\')[1].Trim())) -Name ProfileImagePath).ProfileImagePath).Split('\')[2]  
      $object | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name DefaultPrinter -Value ((Get-ItemProperty -Path ('REGISTRY::' + $Item + '\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows') -Name Device).Device).Split(',')[0]  
      $ProfileArray += $object  
 }  
 $ProfileArray
 foreach ($Item in $ProfileArray) {  
      Export-Csv -InputObject $Item -Path ($env:SystemDrive + '\users\' + $Item.Profile + '\DefaultPrinter.csv') -NoTypeInformation -Force  
 }