Enabling users to see the same printers locally as on their remote desktop sessions

[scott_pulliam]

Would appreciate suggestions for nurses and providers to see the same printers both locally AND on their Remote Desktop sessions (Win 2008 r2). This question is complicated by nurses moving from clinic to clinic on fixed computers and providers moving about with mobile tablets. I would like to keep printer management on my Win 2008 r2 Print server.

The mobile nature of both nurses and providers prevents me from simply leveraging the User GPPref. I would like to use a variation of Jeremy's System variable by computer and Printer filtered on the System variable by User from Ch 12 of Group Policy. How can I take this model and make it work over a Remote Desktop (RD) farm?

Is there a way to key on the client computer's system variable from the RD session? If I could view the the client computers System variable then I could filter on this...

I realize that I could set up all the printers locally and depend on redirection; however, this would make printing very inefficient with print jobs originating on RD, travel to pc then back up to the print server and then back to the clinic to the network printer. That's a lot of traffic.

TIA

[scott_pulliam]

OK...

After a lot of thought does anyone know if its possible to import windows environment variables from computer to its subsequent Remote Desktop session?

The strategy set forth in Jeremy's book for Printers for any user of a pc depends on assigning computers an environment variable to later leverage with a User GPPref. This falls apart when the User wants to open a Remote Desktop session as the RD Server does not have these token variables. I think the strategy will still work if I can pass the PC environment variable up the chain to the RD session.

Can be done? Can a logon script pull the environment variables and assign them to a terminal (Remote Desktop) session???

TIA