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Jan_E950
Brass Contributor
Apr 28, 2020

Local printers list

Hi, when we implement Universal Print we would like to disable the computers to search for local printers directly, but instead just show printers shared from Universal Print. Now when a user is addi...
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Jimmy_Wu
Former Employee
May 20, 2020

Jan_E950 are the local printers the ones that are through the on-premise Active Directory and Print Server?  Or, are the local printers more like the ones you find at a home network?

 

If the local printers are through a Print Server, you can try to remove the printer in the directory by unchecking the "List in the directory" option.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTH,

Jimmy

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TheAlanMorris
Copper Contributor
May 20, 2020

Jimmy_Wu What impact will the group policy Computer / Admin Templates / Printers /Add Printer wizard - Network scan page (Managed network)  have when finding Azure UP printers.

 

Specifically the "Number of directory printers" or just disabling the scan.

 

Are the UP printers even impacted?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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    Jimmy_Wu
    Former Employee
    May 20, 2020

    TheAlanMorris, the settings you mentioned do not impact Universal Print printer discovery.  The settings impacts the existing on premise managed network printer discovery.

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