Forum Discussion
Site specific Printer offering
Would it be possible to implement Site specific printers? For example, if a user was at Site A they would only be offered the printers available at Site A and not printers at sites B or C.
- Jimmy_Wu
Microsoft
sd27ryan, hi, does the scenario include the user being mobile and will be travelling to the different sites? And, will only be offered printers for the site the person is currently at?
What Universal Print currently offers is the ability to set the printer's location based on GPS. When using Windows to discover the printer(s), we ask the OS for it's currently known location. So, this does imply the user or organization has consented to allow access to location data in the privacy settings. It then sends the client's GPS location info to the printer discovery service for use as a filter. By default, the nearest 10 printers will be returned.
So while it is not officially a site specific functionality, it can provide a close equivalent functionality.
If you are looking for a way to provision printers to the Windows client device to be auto-installed based on the current site, please add or vote up in the Ideas Feature Request section of this tech community.
Regards,
Jimmy
Jimmy_Wu One reason we would like this, is to eliminate users accidentally printing to printers at a different site. GPS location will be problematic, as our desktops and laptops don't have this built in. Our internet location is not accurate either as it reports the location as our ISP's office not the actual site.
Our current print management solution has subnet filtering that allows only the printers on that subnet to be available to that subnet's users.
