Forum Discussion
Questions and Requests
MicrosoftMarius_Bekk - thanks for the comment and sharing the list. This is awesome.
Can you file each of these requests independently under Feature Request section for others to upvote?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/feature-requests/idb-p/UniversalPrintFeatures
Server Print - can you elaborate on this a bit more? What do you mean by expose it in cloud? If document is being sent to the queue on server, then how do you see the value in cloud on the queue?
IPP - Universal Print uses IPP based protocol and is committed to support IPP defined attributes as per the Mopria specs.
- On client, we use IPP class driver shipped within Windows to talk to cloud service. There is no other driver required.
- New Universal Print ready printers (when they come to market) will talk to Universal Print service using IPP protocols as well.
- Printers currently existing in the market will use a proxy (Universal Print Connector).
- There can be multiple printers connected via a single proxy that talk to cloud service. Each printer on Connector is installed using the printer manufacturer supported drivers.
- Universal Print does the translation from driver specific details to IPP and vice-a-versa.
- Please note that printer driver just needs to be installed at ONE place - Connector.
- A customer may distribute their printers across multiple Connectors.
Central Driver Management - As mentioned above, all drivers are on the Connector. I expect label printers to be installed on Connector using their specific drivers, and their capabilities can then be converted into IPP attributes.
Mac Support - I can already see that in feature ask section 🙂
Guest Print - Add to feature request log.
Administrative Management - I am assuming all the customers will be on different AAD tenants. In that case they will need Universal Print provisioned separately for their tenant and can manage printers in Universal Print by logging in with their tenant admin/print admin credentials.
Citrix Support - add to feature request log
Automated Deployment - We are working on this. However, feel free to log in feature request. Criteria in your description of how to automate is interesting 🙂
API - We have developed APIs in Microsoft Graph and will share more on the same soon. Hold tight!
Not sure if I answered to your liking. Feel free to ask further 🙂
Thank you for your respons and sorry for mine being so late.
Server Print
I can understand why this might seem weird and this has something to do with secure print solutions. If my customer have Safecom installed as a secure print solution we do need to have the queue and print job go though the Safecom server for this system to work. And the queue that we are sharing to the user then also would have to be on the server, right! So if a company have one Safecom enabled queue and one direct print queue they now have two places to install queues from.. The Safecom queue from the server (or GPO) and the direct printing queue via the Universal Print system. This creates confusion and also makes technical support a little harder. I would love to have the ability to add this Safecom queue to the Universal Print system, just so that the user can install all their queues from the same place.
Thank you for the rest of your response. I will go though and add the feature request if they are not added already.
Kind regards
- Saurabh_Bansal
Marius_Bekk thanks for the details. This is exciting and we hope that existing print service providers will review how their solutions work with Universal Print which is a much different platform from traditional on-prem server based technologies.
Having said that there might be a way to make Universal Print work with some of the existing solutions. You should work with your provider (SafeCom in this case) to understand if they support Universal Print and what are the best practices.
