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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to effectively administer and manage your Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in enterprise environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393076
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Learning the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Core Infrastructure Tasks 3. Security and Networking 4. Working with Certificates 5. Internet Information Services 6. Remote Access 7. Remote Desktop Services 8. Monitoring and Backup 9. Group Policy 10. File Services and Data Control Index

Installing a printer driver to use with redirection


When a user connects to an RD session, if the client and server are configured properly, that connection will attempt to set up printer redirection between the RD session and the local computer. Specifically what happens is that every printer that is installed onto the local computer will be configured as a separate printer inside the user's RD session. This is the feature that enables users to be able to print to their local printers, even if the information that they are accessing and printing is halfway around the world.

When the RD connection builds these virtual printers, it attempts to use real printer drivers for them. For example, if the printer is an HP LaserJet 4100 and the RDSH server has the HP LaserJet 4100 driver installed, then when that printer gets set up inside the user session, it will utilize that existing, official driver. If the user logs in to an RDSH with a printer whose driver does not exist on the RDSH server however...

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