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DEFSET is a standalone Windows GUI tool designed to manage default printer selections on a per user basis. This tool is suited to users accessing a Terminal Server/ Citrix session and is designed to retain a user's default printer choice. DEFSET allows the user to change their default printer during program execution, and writes this information to an ini file located in the users individual windows directory. This information is then used to remember the selected the default printer for later sessions.

Robert Iutzwig has created a script that connects to your servers one-by-one and scans their application logs searching for 1103, 1104, 1106, and 1107 printer autocreation errors. It then outputs this list of printer drivers to a text file.

Everyone who's been around Citrix for awhile knows that printing has always been a challenge. We've all been reading about tips and tricks over the years, but it's easy to forget the basics. In this article, Kevin Buchaniec walks through the best practices of configuring printing in a Citrix Presentation Server environment. This article is refreshing if you're a seasoned admin, and vital if you're a beginner!

Chris Cairns sent me an email a while back with a novel printing fix / workaround for printing to unsupported printers. It's an open source project called PDFCreator. All of the configuration is done on the client's computer, including the ability to save directly to a file without prompting the user and then to automatically print that saved file to a printer.

Printing is one of the biggest headaches for most administrators, but many people do not know how Windows printing actually works. In this session, Charlotte Kuenzell will go deep into the Windows print system and show what you can do to improve it.

triCerat's Simply Suite combines several useful server-based computing management products into a single suite, including printing, profile management, security, and performance management. In this article, Wilco van Bragt steps you through the product.

Here is Stefan Vermeulen's (creator of www.printingsupport.com) presentation from BriForum 2005 last April. In this session, Stefan looks at real-world Citrix printing tuning and best practices.

Microsoft added fallback printer driver support to Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The final version also offers color printer support. This article looks at how this support works and how the system figures out which driver to use.

Dennis Damen has just updated his ReconnAct! utility. This free utility now allows you to specify a script to run when a user connects or disconnects from a session. It also sets two environment variables that maintain the current client name and client address, even when reconnecting from a different client.

In this article, Terminal Server printing guru Stefan Vermeulen (webmaster for printingsupport.com and fellow BriForum speaker) explores the new UPD printing capabilities that Microsoft is building into Service Pack 1 for Terminal Server on Windows 2003.

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