Some would say that VDI got its legs from the Remote Desktop Services (a.k.a. Terminal Services) world. That being said, the number one issue has carried over – printing from a remote session. Andre Leibovici has started a series diving under the covers of printing architectures in a VDI world. Most of what he talks about is directly aimed at VMware View, but the concepts carry over to other VDI vendors as well. Part 1 deals with:
- Location Based Printing
- Deploying drivers in the Parent VM
- Deploying drivers on demand
- Printing over the network
- and more…