Printing in virtual desktops, VDI, and Terminal Server-based environments has always been challenging. (Mainly due to the fact that the application you want to print from is running remotely, yet the printer you want to print to is local.) So to combat this, there have been quite a few innovations in the printer space... things like driver-free printing, driverless printing, universal drivers. Citrix and Microsoft have each added specific capabilities to their products to help people print. We've also seen third-party vendors like ThinPrint, triCerat, and UniPrint come to market over the years.
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Last week at Citrix Synergy 2010 Berlin, Citrix surprised everyone by announcing XenDesktop 5 , the latest iteration of their main desktop virtualization product suite which will ship by the end of the year. XenDesktop 5 actually has quite a few changes...
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During BriForum 2009 , we shot videos of our sponsors live in the DEMO Lab. In these videos, viewers can experience the technologies and products that vendors brought with them to showcase to our attendees. In this video, we hear from Arron Fu, Vice President...
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Back in the day, (which was what, six years ago?), it was a de facto "requirement" that you used third-party add-on printing products to make your Citrix or Terminal Server environment work. In addition to solving the driver management problem...
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I hate printing. Sadly, it's one of those necessary evils like backups, patch Tuesday, and renewing your driver's license (where I've actually helped fix a printer...sigh). That said, among the many changes in XenApp 5, Citrix has added some...
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Rick Mack, Joe Shonk, Tim Mangan, and Eric Musgrave. Session Description: We've been talking about printing at BriForum for years. In this session, instead of focusing on how...
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Today I'm at the Citrix Solutions Conference in Antwerp, a Citrix event with 1500 people that is something like iForum for Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Brad Pedersen gave the technical keynote. He began with the technical history of Citrix's...
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November 07, 2007
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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. ...
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August 24, 2007
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2007 , presented by Stefan Vermeulen. Session Description: This session will go into all the options and hidden features you can use to create, alter, and manipulate autocreated printers in Citrix Presentation...
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April 25, 2007
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2007 , presented by Stefan Vermeulen. Session Description: This session will go into the current situation regarding printing using built-in functionality or by using third party solutions. We will also...
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2007 , presented by Christoph Hammer. Session Description: Printer Management is an often neglected topic, but when it comes to practical use it can cause nightmares if used in a wrong way. This session...
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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....
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December 05, 2006
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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!...
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August 22, 2006
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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.
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July 30, 2006
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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....
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March 27, 2006
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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....
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February 13, 2006
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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....
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December 13, 2005
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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....
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April 25, 2005
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2005. Session Description: 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...
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2005. Session Description: This session will explore what people are actually doing in the world of Citrix and Terminal Server printing. We'll discuss printer autocreation processes, tuning, and...
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April 12, 2005
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2005. Session Description: This session will provide a technical overview of the various products that make up the UniPrint Suite. It will include information on UniPrint, the UniPrint Gateway Module...
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April 12, 2005
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