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ThinPrint: What's New in Horizon View 5.2

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:11:14 +0000

After publishing What’s New in VMware Horizon View 5.2 (Beyond Marketing) I received the same question multiple times from different customers and colleagues in regards to the following excerpt from my article.

A new Print Redirection codebase has been introduced that supports Windows 8, and also fixes a number of outstanding issues.

Troubleshooting ThinPrint in VMware View (Part 2)

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:54:00 +0000

VMware OEMs a sub-set of the ThinPrint Server Engine full-blown product. ThinPrint is a printing solution developed by Cortado. The ThinPrint Server Engine universal drivers can be found in a range of strategic partnerships with VMware, Citrix, Fuji Xerox, HP, Lexmark, Microsoft, Wyse, and others. ThinPrint has managed to embed ThinPrint agent into a range of devices, from Thin Clients to Printers.

Printing Architectures for VDI – Part 2

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:03:29 +0000

Some articles get stuck and never get published. I wrote this one a while back and for different reasons the publishing was delayed. However, while reviewing some of the new features in VMware View 5.0 I noticed that the Location Based Printing feature has been extended.

Printing Architectures for VDI

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Printing discussions have been a constant during my customer engagements, and generally speaking I noticed that there are misconceptions about printing capabilities delivered with VMware View, ThinPrint and Active Directory Group Policies. In addition to that, there are always those questions from the field about how printing should be handled in a VDI environment. What to do with print queues? Should print drivers be deployed to virtual desktops?