Terminal Services and client printing

[Nardo]

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I figured this would be the place to
ask.

We currently use a farm of terminal servers for several internal thin
clients as well remote connections. My understanding is that our remote
users can use their client printers through an RDP session by default. Is it
possible to remove this option?

More to the point, some of our remote users are our employees but others are
"3rd party users" that connect from different companies and need access to
our network. Is it possible to split these users in to two groups: those
that can use client printers on our terminal servers and those that can't?
Ideally, we would like to limit the ability to use client printers to just
our remote employees.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I'm barely able to wrap my head around it
myself.

 

[Nardo]

Got the answer. It is under the Environment tab in the user's Active
Directory profile.

"Nardo" wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is possible, but I figured this would be the place to
> ask.

>
> We currently use a farm of terminal servers for several internal thin
> clients as well remote connections. My understanding is that our remote
> users can use their client printers through an RDP session by default. Is it
> possible to remove this option?
>
> More to the point, some of our remote users are our employees but others are
> "3rd party users" that connect from different companies and need access to
> our network. Is it possible to split these users in to two groups: those
> that can use client printers on our terminal servers and those that can't?
> Ideally, we would like to limit the ability to use client printers to just
> our remote employees.
>
> Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I'm barely able to wrap my head around it
> myself.

 

[Cláudio Rodrigues]

Nardo wrote:
> Got the answer. It is under the Environment tab in the user's Active
> Directory profile.
>
> "Nardo" wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is possible, but I figured this would be the
> > place to
> > ask.

> >
> > We currently use a farm of terminal servers for several internal
> > thin
> > clients as well remote connections. My understanding is that our
> > remote
> > users can use their client printers through an RDP session by
> > default. Is it
> > possible to remove this option?
> >
> > More to the point, some of our remote users are our employees but
> > others are
> > "3rd party users" that connect from different companies and need
> > access to
> > our network. Is it possible to split these users in to two groups:
> > those
> > that can use client printers on our terminal servers and those that
> > can't?
> > Ideally, we would like to limit the ability to use client printers
> > to just
> > our remote employees.
> >
> > Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I'm barely able to wrap my head
> > around it
> > myself.

You got it. I would recommend you reading the guide I wrote, "Terminal
Services A to Z" available for free on our website for a better
understanding of TS in general. Lots of good info there.

Cheers,

--
Cláudio Rodrigues
CEO, WTSLabs Inc.
Citrix CTP

http://www.wtslabs.com