Per User Printer Assignment Logon Script in VMware View
One of my customers has been trying to figure out how they are going to deal with printer assignment in their View environment. In truly stateless desktops (without Persona Management, even), you have to completely depend on external printer assignments, either through a logon script or through Active Directory. I prototyped both solutions for this customer. In order to minimize our logon times, we preinstalled our printer drivers in the parent image (for both tests). We found that a normal Windows 7 logon onto a stateless desktop (where it’s always the first logon and so has to create a local profile and apply group policy) takes about 20 seconds from the time the user hits “connect”. Using Group Policy to distribute printers increased that logon time to about 45 seconds… which was a bit too much for my liking. Using a logon script, on the other hand, does not delay the logon process (even if the printers are not actually present immediately upon log...