ThinPrint Management Center – Documentation

Contents of this guide

Here, all installation and configuration steps are described which are necessary for the effective use of Management Center. This is illustrated by a sample scenario. This contains the following ThinPrint components (see the orange labels):

• ThinPrint Engine and License Server
• ThinPrint Client and Desktop Agent (ThinPrint version 11) or Desktop Engine installer role (version 12)
• Management Center

sample scenario with a central and a local print server, three network printers as well as a workstation with a local attached printer

To simplify the configuration this guide is limited to the following functions or printing options:

• Creating printer objects on a central print server
• Direct printing via TCP/IP; target printer:
  • three network printers – installed on a local print server
  • a printer locally attached to a workstation
• Driver Free Printing (using TP Output Gateway)
• Printer mapping on a workstation
  using AutoConnect’s Dynamic Printer Matrix as a Group Policy Object (GPO)

For all other printing options and functions see ThinPrint Management Center – Manual and ThinPrint Engine on print servers, e. g. for:

• V-Layer or Native Printing
• Printer driver management (using Driver Pool and Template Server)
• Printing via ICA or RDP (using Virtual Channel Gateway)
• Printing into masked networks (using Connection Service)
• Terminal servers or Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI)
• Printer mapping using AutoConnect’s Map Additional Printers table

System requirements for this sample scenario

• Central print server:
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later, 2008¹ x86/x64, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2
  • .NET Framework with Version 2.0 or later
  • Print Server role enabled
  • ThinPrint Engine v8.0 or later installed on each print server or cluster node (Windows 2008 R2)
• Management Center computer:
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Update1 or 2012
  • Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with Microsoft hotfix KB2493115² installed or
  • Windows Server 2008 x86 SP2 or
  • Windows 8.1 or 8 or
  • Windows 7 SP1 with Microsoft hotfix KB2493115 installed
  • .NET Framework 3.5
• SQL server: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Express) or higher
• Workstation: Windows XP, Vista or 7
• Local print server:
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2
  • Print Server role enabled
• Active Directory:
  • All servers have to be members of the same domain (Active Directory).
  • A Reverse Lookup Zone has to be set up in the Domain Name System (DNS) in which all involved computers, devices and appliances are entered.
• Template server and Driver Pool: see Management Center computer or Central print server (except failover clusters)
• Firewall settings:
  • TCP ports for remote configuration of central print servers and template serv­ers via WMI and RPC:
    msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389286.aspx
    support.microsoft.com/kb/178517
  • TCP port for sending print jobs from a ThinPrint Engine to a ThinPrint Client: 4000 (default)

<sup>1. with SP2 or Microsoft hotfixes KB958741 (Print Job Owner) and KB958656 (Client Side Ren­dering)
2. also for all terminal servers (with Windows Server 2008 R2) and desktops (with Windows 7) which use the central print server(s)</sup>