Windows Terminal Services Printing

Friday, 13 April 2007 by Michel Roth

Patrick Rouse has written an article that covers the concept of printing on Windows Terminal Services across the board at MSTerminalServices.org. He discusses printing functionality on Windows Terminal Services and best practices for providing a stable environment.

"When a user logs on to a Windows Terminal Server with the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client, the client sends information about the client’s printers to the Terminal Server. The Terminal Server uses this information to auto-create printers in the user’s session that correlate to the user’s local or network printers. If the name of the client printer driver matches “exactly” that of a printer driver that is installed on the Terminal Server, or is listed in the ntprint.inf (the file that lists the printer drivers that are built-in to the Windows Server installation, and can be loaded on demand) the client printer is successfully auto-created. Print jobs created in the user’s session are routed from the Terminal Server to the associated client printer by way of a virtual channel in the RDP Protocol."

Read the article here.