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Saving Documents in a Remote Application
With certain remote applications, such as Microsoft Word or WordPad, you can create and save documents.
Where these documents are saved depends on your company's network environment. For example, your
documents might be saved to a home share mounted on your local computer.
Administrators can use an ADMX template file to set a group policy that specifies where documents are
saved. This policy is called "Set Remote Desktop Services User Home Directory." For more information, see
the "RDS Profiles Settings" topic in the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
Printing from a Remote Desktop or Application
From a remote desktop, you can print to a virtual printer or to a USB printer that is attached to your client
computer. Virtual printing and USB printing work together without conflict.
You can use the virtual printing feature with the following types of remote desktops and applications:
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Remote desktops that run Windows Server operating systems
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Session-based desktops (on virtual machine RDS hosts)
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Remote hosted applications
Enabling Virtual Printing in Horizon Client
When you use the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display protocol, you can use printers
configured for your local computer from a remote desktop or application. You do not need to install printer
drivers on the remote desktop to use the virtual printing feature.
You can enable virtual printing the first time you launch Horizon Client. Click Continue when
Horizon Client prompts you to start remote desktop USB and printing services and type your system
credentials.
If you do not enable virtual printing the first time you launch Horizon Client, you can use the Connection
menu to enable virtual printing.
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To enable virtual printing before you connect to a remote desktop or application, select Connection >
Start Printing Services from the VMware Horizon Client menu. Click Continue and type your system
credentials.
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To enable virtual printing after you connect to a desktop, select Connection > Start Printing Services
from the VMware Horizon Client menu. Click Continue, type your system credentials, and reconnect
to the desktop or application. If you cancel the reconnection, you can select Connection > Enable
Printing and Horizon Client prompts you to reconnect again.
When the virtual printing feature is enabled, the Connection menu displays Printing Enabled.
NOTE If you install Horizon Client on a Mac on which VMware Fusion was previously launched, printing
services are already enabled when you launch Horizon Client. This behavior occurs because VMware
Fusion and Horizon Client use some of the same files to implement virtual printing.
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