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Windows print server
Hi I have a customer that wants to put his printer server on azure, and remove them onprem, what do you think on this? I would like to know how traffic between client server and printer really works...
- If you keep using a print server and configure all computers to print to that queue, the traffic will be computer -> Azure AD server -> printer. For some of our customers, I add all printers to their computers using Intune and the traffic pattern is computer -> printer. That way all traffic is directed towards the printer, there are no egress traffic costs from Azure back to on-prem, and printing is faster.
That makes almost zero control, would not work here
Like rights on printers and logging for example?
And reporting and archiving, and print release etc
Ah, and VLAN restrictions (only print server communicates with printers)
- Ah, ok... Then it will cause some egress data and costs I guess, not sure how much data it will be... Universal print could also be an option to assign printers, but the driver model has limitations
- That is why I keep on-prem server (makes life so much easier)
