Vista Tutorial - Cancel a print job from the shell

Hello all,

I am stuck. I want to be able to use PS to cancel a specific printjob.
I know the printer name and the JobID. How can I pull this off? Is
there a powershell way to say " Cancel JobID 123 on Server1" ??


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Norm

NormyB wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am stuck. I want to be able to use PS to cancel a specific printjob.
> I know the printer name and the JobID. How can I pull this off? Is
> there a powershell way to say " Cancel JobID 123 on Server1" ??
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norm
>

I checked WMI and also a DLL from the resource kit, and they can only
purge *all* jobs from what I can tell.

You can however use plain old 'net print' from PowerShell though:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles...533/14533.html

Marco

Try PrintSystemJobInfo Class' Cancel Method.
You may need to load its assembly, System.Printing (system.printing.dll)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...emjobinfo.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...o_methods.aspx

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Kiron

On Jul 19, 8:14 pm, "Kiron" <Ki...@HighPlainsDrifter.com> wrote:
> Try PrintSystemJobInfo Class' Cancel Method.
> You may need to load its assembly, System.Printing (system.printing.dll)
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...g.printsystemj...
>
> --
> Kiron

Thanks Marco

I did find Wni32_PrintJob which has a method CancelAllJobs() but I'm
not sure how to use it, or more accuratly stated, I dont know how to
use it to tell a specfic printer on a print share to cancell all
jobs.


Thanks again,

Norm

Try this:

Get-WmiObject Win32_Printer -computerName HAL9000 | Where {$_.Name -eq
"Microsoft XPS Document Writer"} | ForEach { $_.CancelAllJobs() }

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greetings
dreeschkind

"NormyB" wrote:

> On Jul 19, 8:14 pm, "Kiron" <Ki...@HighPlainsDrifter.com> wrote:
> > Try PrintSystemJobInfo Class' Cancel Method.
> > You may need to load its assembly, System.Printing (system.printing.dll)
> >
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...g.printsystemj...
> >
> > --
> > Kiron
>
> Thanks Marco
>
> I did find Wni32_PrintJob which has a method CancelAllJobs() but I'm
> not sure how to use it, or more accuratly stated, I dont know how to
> use it to tell a specfic printer on a print share to cancell all
> jobs.
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Norm
>
>