3.1
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 5 Client Management
Virtual Printing
TheVirtualPrinting(ThinPrint)featureofViewallowsView ClientandView Client
withOfflineDesktopuserstotransparentlyuselocalornetworkprintersfromwithin
theirremotesystems,yetremovestherequirementforinstallingproprietaryprinter
driversoneachViewdesktop.
VirtualPrintingisaplug‐and‐playsolution;onceaprinter
isinstalledonthelocal
systemitisautomaticallyaddedtothelistofavailableprintersontheViewdesktop.
Nofurtherconfigurationisrequired.
VirtualPrintingconsistsofaguestcomponent(.printClient)whichresideswithinthe
ViewClientorViewClientwithOfflineDesktopapplication,andahostcomponent
(.printEngine)whichispartoftheViewAgentserviceontheViewdesktop.Printjobs
aresentby.printEngineto.printClientoveranRDPconnection.
Whereauserhasadministrativeprivileges,printerdriverscanstillbeinstalledonthe
Viewdesktop;thisactiondoesnotinterferewiththe
virtualprintingcomponent.
To configure a virtual printer instance on the View desktop
1ClickStart>Settings>PrintersandFaxes.ThePrintersandFaxeswindowis
displayed.
2Right‐clickanyofthelocallyavailableprintersandselectPropertiesfromthe
contextmenu.Youarepresentedwiththeprintpropertieswindowassociatedwith
theselectedprinter.
3 SelecttheThinPrintDeviceSetup
tab.
4Usingtheslider,selectanoptionforprintdatacompression:
Noimages—Onlytextisprinted.
Extreme—Imagesarecompressedwithmaximumpossiblecompressionrate
withoutregardtoimagequality.
Maximum—Imagesarecompressedwithgoodquality.
Optimal—Imagesarecompressedwithoptimalquality.
Normal—Losslessimagecompressionisused.
SelectordeselecttheduplexandShowtrayselectioncheckboxesasrequired.
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OTEViewPortaldoesnotsupportVirtualPrinting.
N
OTEOnanofflinedesktop,.printEngineusesanamedpipe(Com1:)topassprint
datato.printClient.