Lab Question

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You are faced with the following scenario:

Your company is about to implement a MetaFrame solution that will allow users at remote offices to run a new application based at the main corporate office. This application is Windows-based and will require that each user has a printer configured in their session.

All the clients connecting to your server will be Windows NT 4.0 Workstation using the Win32 ICA client. The majority printers they have configured at their workstations are network printers mapped to printer shares on servers at the remote offices. A handful of users have local printers connected to their workstations.

What is the best printing solution to implement in this environment that is easy to administer and allows every remote user to print?

Answers

 

Import all network print servers into the farm. This will allow you to use the Citrix Management Console to assign printers to users at each remote location. Install print drivers to support these network printers and replicate the drivers to each server in the farm.

Next, determine which clients have printers attached locally to their PCs. Identify drivers for each printer and either install the appropriate driver or map it to another print driver.

At first glance, some may want to use auto-created client printers for the entire install, but this would require more setup time because of the need to determine each client's print driver. By using network printers, we have limited the number of possible drivers needed, except for those few clients who have local printers.

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