In an environment with an HDX Session printers policy, a printer is on a print server and assigned to all users. How are print jobs routed for that printer?

• A. Directly to the network print server and then to the specified printer.
• B. Over the HDX virtual channel to the printer attached to the print server.
• C. Directly from the session VDA to the printer.
• D. Over the HDX virtual channel, through the endpoint, and then to the print server.

Answer: (A)

With HDX Session Printers, printers published from a Windows print server are managed centrally. When a user prints from a session, the VDA sends the print job over the network directly to that designated print server. The print server then spools the job and sends it to the actual printer. The data doesn’t travel over the HDX channel to the endpoint or to a printer attached to the print server; the endpoint isn’t part of the print path for these session printers. This setup centralizes printing and relies on the network print server to handle spooler duties and the final printing step.