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Eric_Mammolenti
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Aug 20, 2024

Universal Print on Windows 11 Shared Multi-User Device

Hello,   We are using Universal Print all over our higher ed environment. For the most part, it has been working great when printers are deployed through Intune. We have discovered an issue recentl...
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swfields
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Feb 09, 2026

My org has also had this same issue for a year now. I just finished a series of testing and communication with Universal Print and Intune support. We found that it was nothing wrong with the Universal Print side of things, but rather just a pitfall of using the Printer Provisioning CSP to deploy printers via Intune. The CSP is designed as a User-scoped policy, so it is expected to be deployed to users, not to devices (or shared multi-user devices) per the Intune support person. They said that the intermittent failures are to be expected since the policy is not designed to be assigned on the Device-scope level as of now. I have submitted a feature request to hopefully get this functionality in Intune ASAP. Feel free to upvote and comment :)

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