Scenario: A Citrix Administrator maintains a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site where mandatory profiles are being used for all users. Users need to maintain the different printer property…

The correct answer is D. Retained in user profile only. Option D is correct because mandatory profiles reset at every logoff, discarding Windows profile changes - but Citrix Profile Management (UPM) maintains its own user store that persists independently. "Retained in user profile only" tells Citrix to store printer properties…

Managing Citrix Profile Management

Question

Scenario: A Citrix Administrator maintains a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site where mandatory profiles are being used for all users. Users need to maintain the different printer property settings that are available for their HDX sessions. The administrator has enabled the HDX Printer properties retention policy for the Site. Which setting could the administrator use for this environment?

Options

AHeld in profile only if NOT saved on client
BDo NOT retain printer properties
CSaved on the client device only
DRetained in user profile only

How the community answered

(28 responses)

A
7% (2)
B
4% (1)
C
4% (1)
D
86% (24)

Explanation

Option D is correct because mandatory profiles reset at every logoff, discarding Windows profile changes - but Citrix Profile Management (UPM) maintains its own user store that persists independently. "Retained in user profile only" tells Citrix to store printer properties explicitly within that UPM-managed store, ensuring settings survive logoff even when the underlying Windows profile is mandatory.

Why the distractors fail:

A ("Held in profile only if NOT saved on client") is the default conditional behavior - it first attempts client-device storage, making it unreliable and non-deterministic in a managed mandatory profile environment.
B ("Do NOT retain printer properties") directly contradicts the stated requirement that users must maintain their printer settings across sessions.
C ("Saved on the client device only") ties settings to a specific physical machine, so users logging in from different endpoints lose their preferences - a poor fit for any multi-device or VDI deployment.

Memory tip: Think "Mandatory = Must use the Managed profile." When Windows locks the profile on logoff, hand printer properties over to Citrix Profile Management by choosing the only option that explicitly commits to profile-side retention - "Retained in user profile only."

Topics

#Mandatory Profiles#HDX Printer Properties#Profile Retention#Printer Configuration

Community Discussion

Ingrid P.Mar 12, 2026

Option D, Retained in user profile only, is the right pick here because mandatory profiles by definition do not persist changes back to a roaming or local profile between sessions, so saving printer properties to the client device (option C) would be redundant or unreliable, and the HDX Printer properties retention policy specifically supports storing those settings in the user profile when that is the designated storage mechanism for the environment. If you are running mandatory profiles and you want printer property persistence, the profile is your only viable container, which is exactly what D gives you.

Imani T.Feb 24, 2026

Took this exact scenario on my 1Y0-205 sitting last spring and almost got tripped up by option A, but once I remembered that mandatory profiles throw away changes at logoff, I knew "Retained in user profile only" (D) was a trap-door distractor and the only one that actually makes sense because the admin controls the profile centrally and printer properties persist within that managed profile structure. Mandatory profiles block client-side saves, so C is dead on arrival and A only matters when client storage is a fallback option, which it is not here.

Nina C.Mar 21, 2026

I almost picked A, but mandatory profiles can't save changes, so D is the only option that actually works here.

Giselle K.Mar 22, 2026

Right, and worth flagging that even if Citrix Profile Management is in play, layering it on top of a mandatory profile does not override the .man behavior, so session writes still get discarded at logoff and D holds no matter what else the environment has configured.

Wesley A.Mar 7, 2026

A lot of people get burned on this one by jumping to option C because they think, hey, mandatory profiles mean nothing saves to the profile so let me just store it on the client device, but that misses the point of the HDX Printer properties retention policy entirely, which is designed to work with the profile in session. The answer is D, Retained in user profile only, because the HDX policy handles the printer property storage within the profile context for the session regardless of the mandatory profile restriction.

Giselle K.Mar 19, 2026

D is right, though A trips people up since mandatory profiles make "if NOT saved on client" irrelevant.

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