I have a question for powershell freaks! I am developing a tool that does the live much more easier for Xenapp administrators… The tool consists mainly in two features: Understanding Universal Print Server (UPS).How to Replicate Print Drivers with PowerShell in XenApp 6.Please share with the rest of the readers by adding your comment below if you know any good resources. I’m pretty sure there’s some smart people out there in the Citrix Community who have already created some smart automatic scripts for replicating print drivers in Citrix XenApp 6.x. To display a list of Printer Drivers in the Auto-Replication-List you’ll use the following command : Simply copy and paste the commands to the PowerShell window.Īdd-XAAutoReplicatedPrinterDriver “Print Driver Name” -SourceServerName XA65-01 A good tip would be to have these commands in a Notepad file to make it easier for you to Add/Remove printer drivers. To make sure that all your Citrix XenApp servers have the same printer drivers it’s recommend to add the required printer drivers to the Auto-Replication-List. Now rerun the command : Get-XAPrinterDriver –Servername XA65-01 The simplest way to install a lot of printer drivers is to connect to your print server and select to connect to the printers you need. This will display a list of all the locally install printer drivers on that particular server. Get-XAPrinterDriver –Servername XA65-01.Start PowerShell as Administrator and run the following commands A good suggestion would be your Preferred Data Collector. So while we wait for this new Citrix Universal Print Server, here’s the steps for replicating print drivers with XenApp PowerShell Cmdlets :įirst you’ll need to decide which Citrix XenApp server you’ll be using as the source. The new Citrix Universal printer driver supports direct network printing on Windows and non-Windows clients. This feature eliminates the need to install numerous network printer drivers on XenApp and XenDesktop hosts, and enables more efficient network utilization.
The Citrix Universal Print Server Technical Preview extends XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 5.5 Universal printing support to network printing. Luckily there’s light in the end of the tunnel.Ĭitrix Universal Print Server Tech Preview is available and will most likely be released at Citrix Synergy 2012. I’m a big fan of the Citrix Universal Printer Driver but in some cases that’s not good enough and replicating print drivers to all Citrix XenApp servers are required. This is now managed with the Windows Printer Management Role in Windows Server 2008 R2 or through XenApp PowerShell Cmdlets. Many people are wondering where the Printer Management node used for replicating print drivers is located in Citrix XenApp 6.x.
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