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- Thank you all for joining our AMA today! I'll be locking this event to new questions but you should always be able to see all the questions and answers here on this page, so feel free to bookmark. We will also be following up on any existing threads for follow-up questions. If you have more questions, feel free to check out the Gov Discussion Space here on Tech Community and stay tuned for our follow up blog on this AMA!
- Posting a question from the discord : "Along with Ryan's question about associating specific users (groups?) and specific printers with physical controls, we also have printers with FIPS Encryption we would like users to use instead of the $39 ink jet that's "cloud" enabled. We do the best we can now via policy, but forcing this so there is no option would be handy."
- Braeden_Petruk_MSFT
Microsoft
We haven't done the work yet, but TLS 1.3 and FIPS are on our radar!
- Are there any limitations when joining a single Universal Print-compatible printer with multiple domains or M365 tenants? Many orgs have two tenants (one commercial, one GCC/GCC High).
- Saurabh_BansalIf you are using the Universal Print ready printer, then its upto the manufacturer to support registering a single printer with multiple tenants and adhere to the required security and data compliance. If you use connector, then you can have two separate connectors - one for each tenant. Same printer may be installed on each of the connectors and then registered independently with the corresponding tenant.
- When using legacy printers that require the Universal Print Connector app, does that connector need to be installed on a server that has the printers added?
Yes, the connector software needs to be installed on a Windows OS machine that has the printers added. The machine can run Windows Server OS or Windows Client OS.
Additional information is available https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-connector-installation#prerequisites.
- but the printers do not have to be shared correct?
- Hello, is support for universal print GCC-H with W10 without registry editing planned by chance, or is W11 expected to be a requirement going forward? Also, is there a process to register Native Universal print devices that point to .com versus .us Microsoft addresses during their registration process? Thanks!
- Rachelle_CheungHi Nicolas! Currently, Universal Print in GCC High is supported on Windows 11. We are discussing internally on providing Windows 10 support for Universal Print in GCC High. We are working with OEMs to provide native Universal Print support in GCC High. In the meantime, please reach out to your printer vendor to push for this support as well.
- Little bit confused. Where can we get reports from? Trying to understand how to track printing.
- Saurabh_Bansal
Hi Dennis. You can access reports via Universal Print portal, PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API.
Universal Print portal has standard reports. However, with PowerShell and Graph API you may generate more advanced reports (like by joining the user data from Entra ID API).
- We have both G3 and F3 licenses. What options do the F3 users have? Can they not print?
- Braeden_Petruk_MSFTHi Bryan, users with both licenses can print. The main difference is the number of pooled print jobs they contribute to the tenant. G3 licenses contribute 100 jobs/user/month to the pool, whereas F3 licenses contribute 5 jobs/user/month to the pool. The jobs are pooled at the tenant level, so all users have access to all the jobs in the pool (not just the jobs they contribute with their license). More info is here: https://aka.ms/UPLicense
- Thank you!
- Is there a way for Mac's that are part of our Azure/Entra environment to use Universal Print?
- Braeden_Petruk_MSFTHi Jenny, macOS is not supported at this time, but we're getting closer to releasing it! In Commercial, it's currently in Private Preview. You can track the Commercial rollout at https://aka.ms/UPRoadmap and Gov support should come shortly after.
- When using the Universal Print Connector, we have updated driver but it requires the user to re-add the printer each time the driver is updated. Is there a different more automated way to do this?
- Saurabh_BansalThanks for the question Jenny. With Windows 1022H2 and WIndows 11, users do NOT have to re-add the printer. Windows will sync the printer settings automatically. The only caveat is that if they have an application already launched, then they may have to restart the application on their device.
- Will the universal print connector be able to be installed on linux containers? We have a bunch of internet connected office and switches which support containers. In an ideal world we'd be able to install the print connector on a container on the swtich
- Hi Brandon, unfortunately no not supported. Please add the ask in the Ideas page so we can track it: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/universal-print-feature-requests/idb-p/UniversalPrintFeatures. Thanks.
