Just a bit of background:

I have some machines that, occassionly, lose contact with their default
printer
and, as a result their 'Use Printer Online/Use Printer Offline' setting
becomes
toggled to 'Offline'. The users, of course' are quite merrily 'printing'
away
become perplexed as to why the printer is not printing anything.

I have determined that I can use the WMI Win32_Printer class to ascertain if
a
given printer is considered to be 'Offline' but I can't figure out how to
toggle
the appropriate attribute for a given printer.

The following fragment nicely lists the installed printers along with a note
if a
given printer is 'Offline':

Dim _scope As New ManagementScope("\root\cimv2")

_scope.Connect()

Dim _searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from
win32_printer")

For Each _printer As ManagementObject In _searcher.Get()
Console.Write("{0}", _printer("name"))
If Convert.ToBoolean(_printer("workoffline")) Then Console.Write("
(Offline)")
Console.WriteLine()
Next

Obviously, becaue I can determine the name of the default printer, I can
target a
specific printer.

Does anyone have a fragment to share that demonstrates how to go about
setting
the 'workoffline' attribute (or, for that matter, any other attribute of the
Win32_Printer class)?

Got it!

One has to execute:

object.Put()

following the:

object.SetPropertyValue("workoffline", False)


"Stephany Young" <noone@localhost> wrote