Local printing through MSTSC from a Citrix Xenapp 6 Fundamentals Server

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If you have published mstsc as an application and then also wanted local printing to work you would have more than likely come across a slight issue. The issue being that no printers are mapped due to the mstsc target not knowing about the Citrix universal printing driver (CUP). Now the CUP driver is not really a driver as such so you cannot simply locate it and install it on the mstsc target (if only it were that simple). But If you really need to use MSTSC and local printing then you need to disable CUP and manage printing in a slightly modified old skool way. I’ve only found this method out due to my own fiddling and it works on our current set up but obviously it may be the cure for all instances of this problem or it may cure only ours, (if you read this and try it out then feedbaRead More…

Using Powershell to install roles

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So, you’ve got your server 2k8 R2 installed as a base installation and you want to install a few roles onto it. You can use powershell to do this. I know your asking “why when I can go through a few menus and its done”, humour me and it may save you some time. To work with roles and powershell you will need to open powershell (duh). Before you can actually start tapping out the commands for installing services you will need to enable the modules within powershell. So to begin with you will need to type: import-module Servermanager After you have completed that you can then type: Get-windowsfeature Which will output a rather verbose list of roles and features that can be installed onto a server 2008 R2 box (already installed roles will be documented with an [X]). For a more sensible Read More…