Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

In Horizon 6.0.1 and later, location-based printing is supported on the following remote desktops and
applications:
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Desktops that are deployed on single-user machines, including Windows Desktop and Windows Server
machines
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Desktops that are deployed on RDS hosts, where the RDS hosts are virtual machines
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Hosted Apps
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Hosted Apps that are launched from Horizon Client inside remote desktops
In Horizon 6.0 and earlier, location-based printing is supported on desktops that are deployed on single-
user, Windows Desktop machines.
To use the location-based printing feature, you must install the Virtual Printing setup option with View
Agent and install the correct printer drivers on the desktop.
You set up location-based printing by configuring the Active Directory group policy setting AutoConnect
Map Additional Printers for VMware View, which is located in the Microsoft Group Policy Object Editor in
the Software Settings folder under Computer Configuration.
NOTE AutoConnect Map Additional Printers for VMware View is a computer-specific policy. Computer-
specific policies apply to all View desktops, regardless of who connects to the desktop.
AutoConnect Map Additional Printers for VMware View is implemented as a name translation table. You
use each row in the table to identify a specific printer and define a set of translation rules for that printer.
The translation rules determine whether the printer is mapped to the View desktop for a particular client
system.
When a user connects to a View desktop, View compares the client system to the translation rules associated
with each printer in the table. If the client system meets all of the translation rules set for a printer, or if a
printer has no associated translation rules, View maps the printer to the View desktop during the user's
session.
You can define translation rules based on the client system's IP address, name, and MAC address, and on
the user's name and group. You can specify one translation rule, or a combination of several translation
rules, for a specific printer.
The information used to map the printer to the View desktop is stored in a registry entry on the View
desktop in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\thinprint\tpautoconnect.
Printer Settings for Location-Based Printing
In Horizon 6.0.2 and later, printer settings for location-based printers are retained after a user logs out or
disconnects from the desktop. For example, a user might set a location-based printer to use black and white
mode. After the user logs out and logs in to the desktop again, the location-based printer continues to use
black and white mode.
To save printer settings across sessions in a Hosted App, the user must select a location-based printer from
the application's print dialog box, right-click the selected printer, and select Printing Preferences. Printer
settings are not saved if the user selects a printer and clicks the Preferences button in the application's print
dialog box.
Persistent settings for location-based printers are not supported if the settings are saved in the printer
driver's private space and not in the DEVMODE extended part of the printer driver, as recommended by
Microsoft. To support persistent settings, deploy printers that have the settings saved in the DEVMODE
part of the printer driver.
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