Forum Discussion
Site specific Printer offering
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.
Microsoftsd27ryan - Universal Print provides the ability to add users to each printer.
Its a great idea to provide ability to control printing to a local subnet. However, I was wondering if you will like to explore the idea of controlling printer access by assigning it the users in same location as the printer? Is that possible in your scenario?
Thanks,
Saurabh
Saurabh_Bansal Thanks. That is what I have done before, but here we have a number of users that move location regularly and so we have not defined users to site specific groups.
- Saurabh_Bansal
sd27ryan, that makes sense. You can add it to the Ideas.
One clarification question though - for users that move across sites, which printers will be added to device? If they have printers from multiple locations on their device then they can still print accidentally. Any ideas on how you envision to protect against accidental printing from such users?
Saurabh_Bansal Yeah that is a sticky one. For the most part it hasn't been an issue, as the users that move around are used to making sure they select the right printer. The vast majority of our users are assigned to a site and then stay there for the year. So making sure that the machines at that site, can only see and install printers available at that site is preferable.