One quick note – even though the spooler changes affect both operating systems, the new Location-Aware Printing feature only applies to Windows 7 mobile devices. In addition, there are some enhancements to the consistency with which the default printer is determined that have been incorporated into the spooler on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 7 provides a new tool, Location-Aware Printing (also known as “Smart Default Printer”) that allows mobile users to configure per-network default printers so that as they connect to different networks, their default printer is updated. Given this increasing trend towards mobility coupled with the predicted increase in shared / networked printers in a home environment due to products such as Windows Home Server, the HomeGroup feature in Windows 7 and the numerous print server appliances currently available and I’m sure you can see why it is so important to have default printers “just work” in a logical and intuitive fashion – regardless of the user’s location. Mobile users are not only sales and customer facing users that travel, but also remote users that work outside the office or users that work from home outside of business hours. Mobile users and network-connected devices are a rapidly increasing component in the enterprise environment. Our topic today is Location-Aware Printing. Our theme this week has been Printing, and today we’ll be continuing in that vein. Good Morning AskPerf Readers! Welcome to Day Ten of our Launch Series. First published on TECHNET on Oct 10, 2009

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