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Undo the mess of Citrix Universal Printing - What is the most practical setup for sharing printers in XenApp 6.5?
FYI, I hate Citrix Universal Printing. When it works, its great, but when its broken, it sux! And it's breaking every day now. So I am going back to Windows Print Sharing.
We are running a XenApp 6.5 farm (RP4 installed). Users connect to their published desktops and print from their various applications (eg Word, Excel & other role specific apps).
The Hosts are all Server 2008 R2 (same as the print server).
I uninstalled the Citrix Print Server app off the print server, & uninstalled the Citrix print client off the XenApp hosts. I edited the appropriate Citrix user polices to disable Citrix universal printing.
Effectively all I want to run is Windows Print shares, and map them to each user through Citrix group policy as the users session printers.
I think I have this all setup nearly how I would like. Everything seems to be printing fine again, however it's much slower & there is a pause for 5-10 seconds whilst the print job is spooling.
Initially I thought its just the downside to not using Citrix Universal Printing, however our old XA5 farm is not using the Citrix Print server & jobs go through to the devices much faster that on the XA65 farm.
I was hoping to find a basic guide to setting up session printers without using Citrix universal printing (just so I can check over and see if I have missed any required settings).
Our print devices are all Lexmark. We use the Lexmark Universal Print driver V2 XL for each device. They all seem to work with this driver.
We are running a XenApp 6.5 farm (RP4 installed). Users connect to their published desktops and print from their various applications (eg Word, Excel & other role specific apps).
The Hosts are all Server 2008 R2 (same as the print server).
I uninstalled the Citrix Print Server app off the print server, & uninstalled the Citrix print client off the XenApp hosts. I edited the appropriate Citrix user polices to disable Citrix universal printing.
Effectively all I want to run is Windows Print shares, and map them to each user through Citrix group policy as the users session printers.
I think I have this all setup nearly how I would like. Everything seems to be printing fine again, however it's much slower & there is a pause for 5-10 seconds whilst the print job is spooling.
Initially I thought its just the downside to not using Citrix Universal Printing, however our old XA5 farm is not using the Citrix Print server & jobs go through to the devices much faster that on the XA65 farm.
I was hoping to find a basic guide to setting up session printers without using Citrix universal printing (just so I can check over and see if I have missed any required settings).
Our print devices are all Lexmark. We use the Lexmark Universal Print driver V2 XL for each device. They all seem to work with this driver.
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The Published Desktops are set to map printers after logon.
Print server performance seems to be fine.
Regarding the delay, it does the same thing when printing from the LAN of the Xenapp Farm Datacentre.
Where would you configure to print directly to the printer? Is that a Citrix Policy or something in the Windows Print queue properties?
The driver has the option of PCL5, PCL XL & PS3