Using RES Automation Manager to create printers from CSV

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Kees Baggerman·Senior Technical Director at Nutanix – Former Citrix CTP – NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor – 15+ years in EUC

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During one of my projects we had to do a print migration of +500 printers and as this could become a repeating task during other migrations we decided to use RES Automation Manager to get this done. Because the old print server was a Windows Server 2003 and the new print server is a Windows Server 2008 R2 we couldn’t do an export/import. I listed  all printers in the following format:

Printserver,Driver,IPAddress,Portname,Sharename,Location,Comment,Printername

I used the following scripts to get this information:

Get-WMIObject -class Win32_Printer -computer $computername | Select name,DriverName,PortName,Sharename,Location,Comment,Name | Export-CS V -path c:\printers.csv

Because I’m using DNS names to configure ports I used the script from  Eric Wright to add all DNS records into the DNS based on this CSV file: Update Microsoft DNS records with PowerShell and DNSCMD

So I got the information I needed in this CSV file so I can create a new job in RES Automation Manager to create the printers based on this information:

I’ve created different tasks in one module on which I configured to contintue on error. In this task I used parameters for the following fields:

As you can see I’ve used all input from the CSV but I used a condition too, based on the input from the CSV I determined which printer drive should be installed:

Not all printers where created using this script, printers that where offline couldn’t be reached and couldn’t be installed so I had to run the script 3/4 times before all printers where created.

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Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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Kees Baggerman

Senior Technical Director at Nutanix - Former Citrix CTP - NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor - 15+ years in EUC

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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