[THIN] Re: Vista printer driver

As we are constantly buying a lot of new PC's from DELL and all of them
have Vista preinstalled our management decided not to downgrade Vista to
XP anymore.

At the moment our DSS (Server and Desktop Support) are going to install
only MS printer drivers so they shouldn't have any problem with drivers'
certification.

 

I am really afraid of installing any new printer drivers on Citrix/Ts as
we had a lot of problems with them few years ago.

Is it possible to keep Windows XP/2000 drivers on print servers and
still print from Vista? 

 

Thanks, Zygmunt Cwalinski, System Analyst Network Services 
905-281-5583 

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From: Rick Mack [mailto:rick_mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 28-05-2007 7:37 PM
To: Cwalinski, Zygmunt
Subject: RE: [THIN] Vista printer driver

 

Hi Zygmunt,

 

The only possible reason for loading the Vista compatible drivers is if
you're in the process of rolling out Vista. However since Vista won't
install printer drivers for non-admins unless they're certified and in
the local Driver Store, I'd love to know the logic behind the decision.
Vista is much more "fussy" about installing any sort of drivers.

 

In terms of TS, a lot of Vista drivers are backwards compatible with
XP/2003 so it really boils down to testing the drivers with Citrix'
AddPrinter or StressPrinters utilities.If they pass they're probably
okay. But I'd still ask if rolling out Vista drivers is actually going
to achieve anything useful.

 

regards,

 

Rick

 

Ulrich Mack

 

Tel: +61 7 32431847
Fax: +61 7 32431992
Level 2, 30 Little Cribb Street, Milton
Brisbane, Queensland 4064
  
Commander Australia <http://www.commander.com/> 

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Cwalinski, Zygmunt
Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 4:38 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Vista printer driver

Is anyone has experience with Microsoft printer drivers for Vista?

Our server team would like to update drivers on all Windows print
servers. As we use session printers we have to be sure that the new
printer drives will not crash our Citrix servers.

For example we have been using "Lexmark T620 PS3" without any problem.
Now server guys would like to update the driver and replace it with
"Lexmark T620 PS (MS)" which is new Microsoft Vista compatible driver.

Should I expect any problem with new Microsoft printer driver or they
are safe for Citrix?

Thanks for any advice

Zygmunt Cwalinski, System Analyst Network Services

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