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The Citrix Universal Printer uses the Citrix Universal Print driver and is only compatible with Windows OS. The Citrix Universal Printer is best suited for users who require access to multiple printers both local and networked which may vary with each session or/and logon performance is a priority.

This article contains information about the print drivers of the Citrix Universal Print Driver (UPD) component.

XenDesktop 5 VDA for 32-bit or 64-bit Versions of Windows XP Operating System

Note: Drivers displayed in the following screen shots are from the 32-bit Windows XP operating system. 64-bit version drivers are available on the 64-bit Windows XP operating system:

The following is a list of Drivers installed on the XenDesktop 5 VDA for the 32-bit Versions of the Windows XP operating system:

• Citrix Universal Printer

• Citrix XPS Universal Printer

• HP Color LaserJet

• HP Color LaserJet PS

• HP LaserJet Series II

XenDesktop 5 VDA for 32-bit or 64-bit Versions of Windows Vista Operating System

Note: Drivers displayed in the following screen shots are from the 32-bit Windows Vista operating system. 64-bit version drivers are available on the 64-bit Windows Vista operating system.

The following is a list of Drivers installed on the XenDesktop 5 VDA for the 32-bit Versions of the Windows Vista operating system:

• Citrix Universal Printer

• Citrix XPS Universal Printer

• HP Color LaserJet 4500 PCL 5

• HP Color LaserJet 4500 PS

• HP LaserJet Series II

XenDesktop 5.x and 7.x VDA for 32-bit or 64-bit Versions of Windows 7 Operating System

Note: Drivers displayed in the following screen shots are from the 32-bit Windows 7 operating system. 64-bit version drivers are available on the 64-bit Windows 7 operating system:

The following is a list of Drivers installed on the XenDesktop 5.x and 7.x VDA for the 32-bit Versions of the Windows 7 operating system:

• Citrix Universal Printer

• Citrix XPS Universal Printer

• HP Color LaserJet 2800 Series PS

Disclaimer

1. What is windows print server?

A print server is a software application, network device or computer that manages print requests and makes printer queue status information available to end users and network administrators. Print servers are used in both large enterprise and small or home office (SOHO ) networks.

2. What is print spooling?

Spooling is the process of sending data to a spool. A spool can be a printer spool (the memory of the printer) or a document saved on the disk of a printer server, before being sent to the printer. Print jobs can be spooled either remotely or locally. Typically, print jobs sent to Locally attached printers are spooled locally, and jobs sent to network printers are spooled remotely. Where print jobs are spooled is where print jobs are processed. The processing location can generate or reduce the network traffic and affect the time of processing and resources used on the device machine or print server. The Windows machine processes the job when print jobs are spooled locally. The Application creates a spooled print job. The local print spooler uses the printer driver to process the print job and sends the print job to the printing device (the physical

Printer). In a Windows environment, printer drivers and settings are stored on the client machine itself.

Kindle collection manager for mac. 3. What is a XPS and EMF print drivers?

Citrix Universal XPS Printer driver

This driver is based on the Windows XML Paper Specification (XPS) printing technology introduced in Windows Server 2008. Windows XPS printing technology uses XML to create a platform-independent “electronic paper” similar to Adobe’s PDF format.

The XPS format is a device-independent XML-based spool file format that provides a compressed XML description of a page’s graphic elements. Printing devices can use XPS-formatted print jobs directly without translation.

The Citrix Universal XPS Printer driver creates the XPS print job using the Microsoft XPS printer driver on the client device. The Citrix Universal XPS Printer driver obtains printing device-specific information from the client device.

Provided your farm servers are running XenApp 5.0 and your client devices have .NET 3.0 installed on them, which comes with Windows Vista, you can use the Citrix Universal XPS Printer driver.

Citrix Universal Printer driver

This driver uses Windows’ Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) technology. EMF is a device-independent format for capturing the graphical elements printed on each page of a print job. A client-side renderer uses EMF and provides a substantial reduction in the processing time of Citrix Universal print jobs on the client.

4. RDP v/s Xenapp?

Windows Terminal Services (or Remote Desktop Services) is a feature of Windows 2003/2008 which allows multiple ‘sessions’ to be brokered to each enabled server, each running a server desktop or embedded application.
Citrix XenApp is layered on top of Terminal Services (2003) or the RDS role (2008) and extend the functionality of this ‘session based’ access. Additional features such as ICA and it’s HDX feature set which provide better application performance for interactive, graphical and WAN based applications, resource metric based load balancing, centralized administration, geographically dispersed ‘terminal server farm’ design options, application publishing (individual apps as opposed to an app embedded in a desktop session), and a rich set of clients for Windows, MAC, Linux, iOS and many other OS platforms to mention just a few of Xenapp’s capabilities.

5. How is xenapp architecture?

•Farms

•Servers

–XenApp Servers (Application Servers / Data Collectors)

–Web Interface / Secure Gateway / NetScaler

–License Server

–Provisioning Services

•Licensing

•Data Collector

•Data Store / Local Host Cache

•Hosted Applications / Streamed Applications

•Worker Groups

•Zones

6. What is the difference b/w data store and DC?

Data Store

The data store is the database where servers stores farm static information, such as configuration information about published applications. Each server, printers and servers farm has a single data store.

The Data Store database maintains farm data, including:

Farm configuration information

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Published application configurations

Server configurations

Farm management security

Printer configurations

License Server name and port

Data Collector

A data collector is a server that hosts an in-memory database that maintains dynamic information about the servers in the zone, such as server loads, session status, published applications; users connected, and license usage. Data collectors receive incremental data updates and queries from servers within the zone. Data collectors relay information to all other data collectors in the farm.

In large XenApp server farm environments, it is a good idea to have a dedicated server and restrict it from delivering applications. A dedicated data collector improves load balancing decisions and reduces session logon time.

7. What is the function of XML broker or XML service?

A service that provides an HTTP interface to the web browser. It uses TCP packets instead of UDP, which allows connections to work across most firewalls. The default port for the Citrix XML Service is 80.

8. What is a Farm?

XenApp server farm is a logical collection or group of XenApp servers that can be managed as a single entity. Usually, Citrix define three types of farms:

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Design validation farm: Design validation farm is set up in a laboratory, typically as the design or blueprint for the production farm. Usually, the preferred method to build a design validation farm today is using virtual machines.

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Pilot farm: Pilot farm is a preproduction farm used to test a farm design and applications before deploying the farm across the company. The pilot must include users from the entire organization and role. These users should access the farm for their everyday needs.

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Production farm: Production farm is in regular use and accessed by all users in the organization.

9. What is a Zone?

Zones are used to control the aggregation and replication of data in the farm. A farm should be divided into zones based upon the network topology, where major geographic regions are assigned to separate zones. Each zone elects a data collector, which aggregates dynamic data from the servers in its zone and replicates the data to the data collectors in the other zones.