No, not using the embedded PaperCut, just NG on a server to handle printing costs, hence the need to collect counters from the MFDs to bill for photocopying. Would be interested to see your script, thanks. 🙂
Address Book automation seems like the obvious next project, yes. I'm thinking of basing it on whatever accounts we have listed in our PaperCut instance.
Might take me longer than February, though!
Wrote a script that gathers counters from a school's fleet of Ricoh MFDs and automatically pings an internal billing CSV off to the finance department.
Ricoh devices being what they are I had to use Selenium to do it, so it feels like a bigger victory than it really ought to!
Each little automation project I complete, I learn a bit more and then start to see other things I could automate.
I work in a very small team in a poorly resourced sector, so the whole automation thing is like unlocking a force multiplier.
I got sucked into using PowerShell for automation after first being sucked into using Google Apps Script for automation. User provisioning (and deprovisioning) for a school was my in.
With AppSheet sitting between the two as a lightweight db with an API, you can get a lot of cool stuff done easily!
I needed this one the other day! I was adding arrays together but ending up with a concatenated string if the arrays had only a single element each.
And even worse when sudo !! doesn't make it work.
I'm on an 'automate all the things' drive at work and am so enjoying PowerShell. Running lots of scripts as scheduled tasks, one thing I find particularly handy is Start-Transcript for easily logging stuff (actions taken, errors, etc.) to a file.
