Managing thinprit via GPO

[Najtsob]

Can be thinprint managed via GPO ?

I have in mind actions like:

- enabling/disabling thinprint service,

- seting up a default printer if you have multiple printers via thinprint

- preventing that the thinprint printer is set up as default

- managing which printers are mapped via thinprint

- ...

[mittim12]

There is no GPO for the intergrated ThinPrint View services that I know of.   If you want more flexiblility you can try looking at the other products offered by Thinprint, http://www.thinprint.com/. 

[Najtsob]

that's unfortunate

Are there any registry settings, which you can manipulate to control thinprint ?

[Najtsob]

How do you manage printers added via thinprint icluded in view ?

Do you leave it as it is or do you have some other tricks to control it ?

[gunnarb]

Using the GPO you posted in your other post is how you manage it.  The problem is you can't use true ThinPrint printers (IE the ones that start with TP_) to do this you need the full version of TP.  The only thing the View TP can do is map network printers and select which one is the default.  I'm not aware of any more robust features than this.

And the fact is you could do this without TP, so I don't even know why VMware bothers to continue to pay for TP licensing, it kinda sucks.

Gunnar

[amandasmith]

Hi,

        Check the following information http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-ThinPrintGPOConfig-IG-EN.pdf

Hope this information helps you.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else

[psplnalin123]

ThinPrint can be manage by GPO you need to register the thinprint dll which you will find from Connection server group policies.

Normal Users cant manage thinprint services bt admin user will able to manage thinprint service

You could set up a defualt printer using script by default automatically it will select the default printer using location based.

you can preventing that the thinprint printer is set up as default

you could manage which printers are mapped via thinprint

[Mickelonis]

In our environment, we use Group Policy with the TP .dll to have printers installed based on MAC address.

Quick question however, how do we let users save their driver settings.

User 'A' wants the printer to default to duplex, user 'B' does not.... So, user 'A' modifies their printer properties.... After disconnect/reconnect to their session, the settings revert (due to the nature of location based printing).

Any ideas how to retain driver settings for users?

Thanks,

-Pete