Install and configure citrix universal print server

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Este texto foi traduzido automaticamente. Este artigo foi traduzido automaticamente. Review the referenced articles before starting each deployment step, to learn about what you see and specify during the deployment. Review Prepare to install and complete any necessary tasks. You can also install Citrix StoreFront. For details, see Install core components or Install using the command line. After you install the core components and launch Studio, you are automatically guided to create a site.

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If you plan to use the Citrix Universal Print Server, install its server component on your print servers. See Install core components or Install using the command line. To enable end users to have greater control over their user accounts, install Self-Service Password Reset. After you create a site in Studio, you are guided to create a machine catalog. A catalog can contain physical or virtual machines VMs. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

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Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. The setting has the following options: Enabled with fallback to Windows native remote printing. Network printer connections are serviced by the Universal Print Server, if possible.

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Aviso legal. Before you begin planning your deployment, make sure that you understand these core concepts for printing:. Printing concepts build on Windows printing concepts. To configure and successfully manage printing in your environment, you must understand how Windows network and client printing works and how this translates into printing behavior in this environment.

In this environment, all printing is initiated by the user on machines hosting applications. Print jobs are redirected through the network print server or user device to the printing device. There is no persistent workspace for users of virtual desktops and applications. You can customize how to perform these tasks by configuring options for printer provisioning, print job routing, printer property retention, and driver management.

Be sure to evaluate how the various option settings might change the performance of printing in your environment and the user experience. The process that makes printers available in a session is known as provisioning. Printer provisioning is typically handled dynamically. That is, the printers that appear in a session are not predetermined and stored. Instead, the printers are assembled, based on policies, as the session is built during log on and reconnection.

As a result, the printers can change according to policy, user location, and network changes, provided they are reflected in policies. Thus, users who roam to a different location might see changes to their workspace. The system also monitors client-side printers and dynamically adjusts in-session auto-created printers based on additions, deletions, and changes to the client-side printers.

This dynamic printer discovery benefits mobile users as they connect from various devices. Citrix recommends the Citrix Universal Print Server for remote print server scenarios. The Universal Print Server transfers the print job over the network in an optimized and compressed format, thus minimizing network use and improving the user experience.

A server component, UPServer - Install UPServer on each print server that provisions session network printers and uses the Universal print driver for the session printers whether or not the session printers are centrally provisioned.

For Universal Print Server requirements and setup details, refer to the system requirements and installation articles. The following illustration shows the typical workflow for a network based printer in an environment that uses Universal Print Server.

When you enable the Citrix Universal Print Server, all connected network printers leverage it automatically through auto-discovery. Autocreation - Autocreation refers to printers automatically created at the beginning of each session. Both remote network printers and locally attached client printers can be auto-created. Consider auto-creating only the default client printer for environments with a large number of printers per user.

Minimizing auto-created printers can also reduce user logon times. Autocreation policy settings enable you to limit the number or type of printers that are auto-created. By default, the printers are available in sessions when configuring all printers on the user device automatically, including locally attached and network printers.

Client and network printer autocreation has associated maintenance. For example, adding a printer requires that you:. The term printing pathway encompasses both the path by which print jobs are routed and the location where print jobs are spooled.

Both aspects of this concept are important. Routing affects network traffic. Spooling affects utilization of local resources on the device that processes the job. In this environment, print jobs can take two paths to a printing device: through the client or through a network print server.

Those paths are referred to as the client printing pathway and the network printing pathway. Which path is chosen by default depends on the kind of printer used. The system routes jobs to locally attached printers from the Server OS machine, through the client, and then to the print device. The ICA protocol optimizes and compresses the print job traffic. When a printing device is attached locally to the user device, print jobs are routed over the ICA virtual channel.

What this means is you could have 10 printers mapped to your local machine, but when logging on to a Citrix session only one printer object is created the generic Citrix Universal Printer.

This can greatly reduce resource usage and logon times since only one printer object has to be created. When users go to print the print job can either be sent to the default printer default or you can use a preview window which allows users to select any printer that is linked to their local machine.

This behaviour can be modified to allow the user to select any of their compatible local or networked printers. When enabling th Universal Printer set Auto-create client printers to Do not auto-create client printers.

This will ensure only the Citrix Universal Printer is created when a session is launched. The Citrix Universal Printer will show as below when a user clicks to print. By default previewing is disabled so when a user clicks print the job will be sent to the users local default printer. If the user wants to preview on client they could always go in to the printing preferences of the Universal Printer and check the Preview on client box.

This setting will be retained within the users profile using the Printer properties retention policy. To change the way printing behaves with the Universal Printer, edit the Universal printing preview preference Citrix policy setting and specify Use print preview for generic universal printers only.

Clicking on the print button again gives you the option to print to any of your locally connected printers. Note : It is recommended that you test the Citrix Universal Printer output to verify alignment before using Universal Printer in a Production environment. If you find that the EMF Viewer shows a print being aligned properly but the actual result is not then you may need to use the Universal Print Driver or native print driver specific to that printing device.

The Citrix Universal Print Server component v7. You install the print server software on top of a Windows Print Server device and then Citrix users obtain their print queues from these print servers. Be aware that UPS 7. How does this type of Universal Print Server printing work? Both the print commands and print data are sent using their own ports. Print commands are sent via TCP and print data is sent over TCP by default however these ports can be changed via Citrix Policy and it is recommended by Citrix that you assign this policy to an Organizational Unit containing only your print servers.

The print job from the Citrix session is sent via the ICA protocol and the print data is compressed. Outside of locally attached printers, Citrix has two different methods for sending your print job to a networked printer.

The default route sends the print job direct from Citrix session to print server. This is enabled by default but configurable via a Citrix policy named Direct connections to print servers.

Think of the following scenarios if you have not disabled this policy:. Print server, client device and printer in same LAN. Now think of the following scenarios if you do have Direct connections to print servers disabled.

This results in print jobs being routed through the client device. This is because in this situation the print job sent direct to the print server is not compressed.

When the print job is routed via ICA it is compressed. If you decide to leave the Direct connections to print servers setting enabled the print job will and can take a fallback route through the client device if needed. In this scenario the print job will then be routed from Worker VM to client, then from client to print server and finally to printer. Since the UpsClient component is installed along with the VDA you only have to install the UpsServer component on your selected print servers and not perform anything extra on VDA machines.

NET 3. The UpsClient version 7. NET 4. Accept the Citrix License Agreement and click Next. Choose an installation path and click Next. Click Install.