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Device Control Printer Protection - Blocks Print to PDF
When using the OMA URI policy ./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Printers/EnableDeviceControl to block printing via non-corporate printers. It is observed it blocks Print to PDF and Print to XPS function. ...
Same thing with me. I block USB printing and when I add All Users, it is not allowing me to print to PDF/XPS and it saves as 0KB file. But, when I remove the USB printing and do not assign anyone, then I can print to PDF / XPS and saves with the original file size.
- Documentation here shows that you can now define a group for printing to PDF/XPS which would allow you to whitelist this, while blocking other printers.
At least if you manage this with the Device Control feature.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/printer-protection-overview?view=o365-worldwide
Documents list this under the same section as Printer Protection, but it seems to be a different feature, so may or may not work for you.- We urgently need a solution about the following problem:
The GPO “List of Approved USB-connected print devices” is active.
And when the GPO is enabled, the "eDoc" (Software Print to PDF) does not work anymore.
Importand:
No Intune or MS Defender is used.
Means the "printer protection v2" can`t used it.
What solution exists today or in the near future?
