Search Active Directory for Specific Printers in Windows

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Search Active Directory for Specific Printers in Windows using VBScript, WMI and LDAP

Example(s)

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")

objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCOmmand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.CommandText = "Select printerName, serverName from " _
    & "'LDAP://DC=fabrikam,DC=com'  where objectClass='printQueue' and " _
        & " Priority = 2 "  
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE 

Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst

Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    Wscript.Echo "Printer Name: " & objRecordSet.Fields("printerName").Value
    Wscript.Echo "Server Name: " & objRecordSet.Fields("serverName").Value
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop