Printing is traditionally one of the more challenging areas of VDI and SBC projects for reasons such as third-party drivers, demanding network conditions and employee mobility. The good news is that Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop provides the features to be successful you. Citrix Consulting the print area of the Virtual Desktop Guide (design / Resource Layer / Personalization / print) with details about these features and the pressures associated with design decisions recently updated, you need to consider.
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Some of the areas covered:
Printer Provisioning
- deciding which printer will be created in the user's session. If your default printer only see all their printers, locally attached printer or session based on administrator-defined printer
-. Determine if users are displayed in each session the same printer or it can vary
printer driver management
- the decision to print what drivers use :. native Windows, universal, manufacturer, or a combination of all of
- determining how the printer drivers are installed when the Universal Driver is not used
-. Driver consistently on all XenApp servers Print using the same user experience in each session to ensure. , Knowing when using the Citrix Universal Print Server to implement
-. to update, develop a roadmap for the printer driver
- determining whether it is necessary to support a user thin client printing, or non-Windows. based devices such as a Mac or Chromebook
jobs
- Determining how print jobs should be routed. Are all components involved in printing (XenApp / XenDesktop controllers, printers, client device and / or print server) on the same LAN
- Develop a strategy for the routing of print jobs to a branch, with or without local print servers or a user working from home
- .. determining how WAN pressure when the print server and client device to optimize to the XenApp / XenDesktop controllers are not locally
Select printer
- deciding how users will choose their printer: automatic, manual, Citrix Universal printer, etc.
- the decision whether or not users to print locally are allowed connected printers. For example, a company can with highly sensitive information users prohibit work from home print to locally attached printer
-. Determining which printer for users who roam throughout the day or users that travel to different offices at regular intervals.
These are just some of the design choices related to printing. I encourage you to read the latest printing section in the Citrix Virtual Desktop Manual for a complete list, as well as information on how you can use the powerful printing features fully contained with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. This chapter provides guidelines and best practices from Citrix consulting experience working with a variety of clients. We welcome your feedback and ideas on additional content
Ed Duncan -. Sr. Consultant
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