The VMware Integrated Printing ADMX template file (printerRedirection.admx) contains policy settings related to the VMware Integrated Printing feature.

These settings are in the Group Policy Management Editor in the Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > VMware Integrated Printing folder.

Table 1. VMware Integrated Printing Policy Settings
Setting Description
Disable LBP Specifies whether location-based printing is enabled. When this setting is enabled, location-based printing is disabled. When this setting is disabled or not configured, location-based printing is enabled.
Do not redirect client printer(s) Specifies whether client printers are redirected. When this setting is enabled, client printers are not redirected. When this setting is disabled or not configured, all client printers are redirected.

This setting is not configured by default.
Disable printer redirection for non-desktop client Determines whether VMware Integrated Printing is supported for non-desktop client endpoints.

When this setting is enabled, VMware Integrated Printing is not supported for non-desktop client endpoints. When this setting is not configured or disabled, VMware Integrated Printing is supported for non-desktop client endpoints.

This setting is not configured by default.
Disable Printer Property Persistence Determines whether printer properties are persistent. When this setting is enabled, printer properties are not persistent between the client local printer and the redirected printer. When this setting is disabled or not configured, printer properties are persistent between the client local printer and the redirected printer.

This setting is not configured by default.
Print Preview Setting Configures the print preview behavior.

Disable Print Choice determines whether the print target is enabled. When this setting is selected, users cannot select the print target. When this setting is deselected or not configured, users can select the print target, which can be print preview or print directly. It is not configured by default.

Print Target Default Choices specifies the default print target. You can select one of the following options:

  • Print directly: the default print option in the print user interface is to print directly.
  • Print preview: the default print option in the print user interface is print preview.
Printer Driver Selection Specifies the printer driver to use for redirected client printers. When this setting is enabled, the options are as follows:
  • Always Use NPD uses the native printer driver for the redirected printer.
  • Always Use UPD uses the universal printer driver for the redirected printer
  • Use NPD First, then UPD uses the native printer driver first and, if the native printer does not exist, uses the universal printer driver.
  • Use UPD First, then NPD uses the universal printer driver first and, if the universal printer driver does not exist, uses the native printer driver.

When this setting is disabled or not configured, the default value is Use NPD First, then UPD .

Printer Name for RDSH Agents Determines the printer naming convention to use when client printers are redirected to a published desktop or published application.

When this setting is enabled, you enter the printer name schema in the Printer Name Schema text box. A valid printer name schema begins with %P. The following suffixes are supported:

  • v%S: session ID
  • %C: client machine name

The following printer name schemas are supported:

  • %P (v%S): redirected printer names include the current session ID as the suffix. For example, if the client printer name is PDFCreator and the current session ID is 2, the redirected printer name is PDFCreator (v2).
  • %P (%C): redirected printer names include the client machine name as the suffix. For example, if the client printer name is PDFCreator and the client machine name is client-pc, the redirected printer name is PDFCreator (client-pc).
Note: When the printer name schema is set to %P (%C), the client machine name is used as the suffix only if the client machine name is available on the agent machine. For the Windows, Mac, and Linux clients, the client machine name is available on the agent machine. For the Chrome and HTML Access clients, the client machine name might not be available on the agent machine and the printer name schema %P (%C) might not work as expected.

When this setting is not configured or disabled, the printer name schema is %P (v%S).

This setting is not configured by default.
Specify a filter in redirecting client printers Specifies a rule that filters client printers from printer redirection. When this setting is enabled, you can type a filtering rule in the Printer Filter text box. The filtering rule is a regular expression that specifies the printers that should not be redirected (a black list). Any printer that does not match the printers in the filtering rule is redirected.

The following attributes, operators, and wild cards are supported in the filtering rule:

  • Attributes: DriverName, VendorName, and PrinterName
  • Operators: AND, OR, and NOT
  • Wild cards: * and ?
Following are examples of filtering rules. 
(DriverName="DrName1" OR VendorName="VeName1") AND NOT PrinterName="PrNa.?e"
PrinterName=".*HP.*" OR PrinterName=".*EPSON.*" AND DriverName="PDF"
PrinterName!=".*PDFCreator.*"
Note: The filtering rule is not case sensitive. To use an exact match, use a regular expression, such as " ^HP$" rather than " HP".

By default, the filtering rule is empty, which means that all client printers are redirected.