print auditing

[Richard Giagnacovo]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know a reliable way to check when a print queue was last
successfully printed to on WinXP SP2?

I have shared print queues on around 80 WinXP SP2 machines and not all
these machines still have a printer physically attached. My aim is to
track down the machines which no longer need to have a share and remove it.

These machines have not previously had auditing switched on. I have
considered switching auditing on and enabling it on the print shares,
but it would be several weeks before I could reliably conclude that a
printer is no longer in use.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Richard

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

enable Informational events

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[Richard Giagnacovo]

Thank you for your reply, the listed System events are very useful.