Step-by-Step: Configure and manage Microsoft Universal Print

We planned to use UP last year.

But when we started with POC found that it was not ready for Enterprise.

I see a lot of things like PIN, SAP, etc.

But I do not see the main requested and promised – easy deployment and management.

We have 300+ offices in the company. Each office has from 2 to 50 printers.

For Intune deploy, we need to create 300 packages assuming that 1 package = 1 office.

But some users do now wish to see all office printers or should not have access to those.

Managing all this becomes a mess.

Five months ago, we answered that this team is working with Intune and Windows teams to improve this process.

But still, the way how printers are deployed has not changed. CSV + CMD file in 2022 is a bad design and it was bad ten years ago. More ever – we need to create the package. Again and again…

Now, I see it’s possible to add printers via a configuration profile. But again:

1. Only for Windows 11. When will this be available for Windows 10 (most of the enterprise customers have)?
2. We need to Copy and Paste all info. Why can’t we select list printers from the Azure UP? Who thinks that C\P is a good process?

This team does not understand requirements from big businesses because, in the proposed solution, we need one person just sitting and managing printers for the users. It’s not the right direction.