Manage Printers without the overhead of GPO, Scripts, Appsense or Citrix Session Policies

A rather common but boring problem is a solution to map users to their required printers.

We commonly group people into AD groups. Then using the information use a logon solution to map those users their printers. The downside with all these common solutions is they have the following downsides :

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Update a Citrix MCS Dedicated Catalog Master Image

Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is designed to allow the easy provisioning and if required life cycle management of virtual machines and servers.

Pooled desktops allow us to easily update our master image and ensure that all machines receive that update.
Persistent machines are made from a master image but then must be managed going forward with other ERD (electronic Distribution tools) like SCCM & Altiris

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