Understanding the Default Printer in Windows 7 VDI
Getting control over your Default Printer in a Windows 7 VDI environment is a little more difficult than I would have expected. There are a lot of different factors that can come into play and, depending on the type of client connection, you can get some unexpected results. Here are the factors that I know of that can set a desktop’s default printer: 1) The user’s Profile 2) A logon script/GPO 3) Windows’s spooler behavior when the default printer that it expects is missing 4) The TPAutoConnect.exe program (which executes automagically at PCoIP session connection) My current customer is intending to use a combination of #2 and #4. The logon script is setting their network printer based on who they are and is responsible for 90% of the printer assignment. TPAutoConnect.exe is used to install direct-attached client printers and map them into the VDI desktop. The simple fact that the plan doesn’t involve #1 and #3 doesn’t remove them from the equati...