Session based printing in MS TS?

[Guest James]

For those that are familiar with Citrix, is there feature in the MS vanilla

terminal services that provides the same functionality as "Session based

printing policies" in Citrix? I'm asking because we are small business

that's tired of paying for Citrix and we want to investigate Windows Server

2008 TS solutions. We have two print servers and want to assign different

printers to different groups of users along with the appropriate default

printer.

 

With the new session broker, TS gateway, etc.., I'm sure many small to

medium businesses are thinking the same thing.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Session based printing in MS TS?

 

You'll want to read this:

Terminal Services Easy Print, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-

services-easy-print-part-1.aspx

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal-

services-easy-print-part-2.aspx

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/10/05/introducing-terminal-

services-easy-print-part-3.aspx

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?SmFtZXM=?= <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 29

nov 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> For those that are familiar with Citrix, is there feature in the

> MS vanilla terminal services that provides the same

> functionality as "Session based printing policies" in Citrix?

> I'm asking because we are small business that's tired of paying

> for Citrix and we want to investigate Windows Server 2008 TS

> solutions. We have two print servers and want to assign

> different printers to different groups of users along with the

> appropriate default printer.

>

> With the new session broker, TS gateway, etc.., I'm sure many

> small to medium businesses are thinking the same thing.

>

> Thanks in advance.

[Guest James]

Re: Session based printing in MS TS?

 

Yes, easy print looks awesome. I watched the web cast and this will help a

lot for our remote users. However, the feature I'm looking for is based on

Citrix session printing. In Citrix, you can "import" a print server and

assign printers from this print server to users who log into Citrix using

policies. At our remote offices, we have a mixture of Windows 2000/XP

clients that are locked down and do not have any local printers installed.

Print jobs (traffic) are sent over the private network with ICA traffic to

the respective offices. Simply put, we use print servers not local print

queues on the clients.

 

We could change our print model since TS '08 Easy print reduces traffic, but

we would first need to update our Windows 2000 clients and do a lot of

testing as our industry uses some pretty complex forms. To get this feature

in 2003 TS or earlier, we would need to use logon scripts achieve this

session based feature with vanilla TS. My question is, are there any Group

Policy features or other methods for achieving this?

 

Thanks,

 

 

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> You'll want to read this:

> Terminal Services Easy Print, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

>

> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-

> services-easy-print-part-1.aspx

>

> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal-

> services-easy-print-part-2.aspx

>

> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/10/05/introducing-terminal-

> services-easy-print-part-3.aspx

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

>

> =?Utf-8?B?SmFtZXM=?= <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 29

> nov 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>

> > For those that are familiar with Citrix, is there feature in the

> > MS vanilla terminal services that provides the same

> > functionality as "Session based printing policies" in Citrix?

> > I'm asking because we are small business that's tired of paying

> > for Citrix and we want to investigate Windows Server 2008 TS

> > solutions. We have two print servers and want to assign

> > different printers to different groups of users along with the

> > appropriate default printer.

> >

> > With the new session broker, TS gateway, etc.., I'm sure many

> > small to medium businesses are thinking the same thing.

> >

> > Thanks in advance.

>

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Session based printing in MS TS?

 

No, there are no standard GPO settings that do this. I do this in a

single kixtart logon script. It helps tremendously if the naming

convention of your workstations and printers reflects their

location.

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

 

=?Utf-8?B?SmFtZXM=?= <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 30

nov 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Yes, easy print looks awesome. I watched the web cast and this

> will help a lot for our remote users. However, the feature I'm

> looking for is based on Citrix session printing. In Citrix, you

> can "import" a print server and assign printers from this print

> server to users who log into Citrix using policies. At our

> remote offices, we have a mixture of Windows 2000/XP clients

> that are locked down and do not have any local printers

> installed. Print jobs (traffic) are sent over the private

> network with ICA traffic to the respective offices. Simply put,

> we use print servers not local print queues on the clients.

>

> We could change our print model since TS '08 Easy print reduces

> traffic, but we would first need to update our Windows 2000

> clients and do a lot of testing as our industry uses some pretty

> complex forms. To get this feature in 2003 TS or earlier, we

> would need to use logon scripts achieve this session based

> feature with vanilla TS. My question is, are there any Group

> Policy features or other methods for achieving this?

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

>

>> You'll want to read this:

>> Terminal Services Easy Print, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

>>

>> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal

>> - services-easy-print-part-1.aspx

>>

>> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal

>> - services-easy-print-part-2.aspx

>>

>> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/10/05/introducing-terminal

>> - services-easy-print-part-3.aspx

>> _________________________________________________________

>> Vera Noest

>> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

>> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

>> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

>>

>> =?Utf-8?B?SmFtZXM=?= <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on

>> 29 nov 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>>

>> > For those that are familiar with Citrix, is there feature in

>> > the MS vanilla terminal services that provides the same

>> > functionality as "Session based printing policies" in Citrix?

>> > I'm asking because we are small business that's tired of

>> > paying for Citrix and we want to investigate Windows Server

>> > 2008 TS solutions. We have two print servers and want to

>> > assign different printers to different groups of users along

>> > with the appropriate default printer.

>> >

>> > With the new session broker, TS gateway, etc.., I'm sure many

>> > small to medium businesses are thinking the same thing.

>> >

>> > Thanks in advance.