To set up location-based printing, you configure the AutoConnect Map Additional Printers for VMware View group policy setting. The group policy setting is a name translation table that maps printers to View desktops.
Prerequisites
- Verify that the Microsoft MMC and the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active Directory server or on the domain computer that you use to configure group policies.
- Register the DLL file TPVMGPoACmap.dll on your Active Directory server or on the domain computer that you use to configure group policies. See Register the Location-Based Printing Group Policy DLL File.
- Familiarize yourself with syntax of the AutoConnect Map Additional Printers for VMware View group policy setting. See Location-Based Printing Group Policy Setting Syntax.
- Create a GPO for the location-based group policy setting and link it to the OU that contains your View desktops. See Create GPOs for View Group Policies for an example of how to create GPOs for View group policies.
- Verify that the Virtual Printing setup option was installed with View Agent on your desktops. To verify, check if the TP AutoConnect Service and TP VC Gateway Service are installed in the desktop operating system.
- Because print jobs are sent directly from the View desktop to the printer, verify that the required printer drivers are installed on your desktops.