Distribute printers with Intune or native via universal print

Sorry but this roll your own approach isn't what I expect from a modern management tool like MEM/Intune etc. I had might as well have written Powershell scripts by hand. There should be a GUI within the MEM or UP portals for something so simple

I used the tool following the manual and it worked like a charm. 

It is a bit of a hassle that you can only assign one set of printers per user or group. Most of our customers only have 1 or 2 printers but we have a few that have a lot more (up to 20).  For these customers, this method of deployment is too cumbersome but you could argue that with so many printers, you are better off with a dedicated print server.

Also the logging in event viewer could give a bit more information.  For instance show the name of the printer as well as the ID of the printer being installed.

During the first try on an almost clean machine I noticed that I could see the printer from applications and in "Control Panel" but not under "settings --> devices --> printers and scanners". The default printers ("fax" and  "Microsoft print to PDF") were also not visible. Restarting the spooler or the machine did not solve the problem. This was observed on a Windows 10 1909 Dutch language. It is unclear if the problem existed before installing the Universal Print applications through Intune.

Reinstalling the machine did solve the problem so it might be unrelated but I thought, I'd share this experience nonetheless.

Troy Phillips - Both - unlock and logon.

The documentation notes that when "users sign in to their Windows 10 device, this background service receives a user login event notification. This event triggers a workflow that looks for the “printers.csv” file". Does this event fire when a user unlocks their device, or only if they logon after boot/restart etc?

For more details on the solution, refer to blog - https://aka.ms/UP-MEM-integration.

Don't forget to leave your feedback here once you have tried the tool 🙂

I have configured an Universal Printer, which I can add manually through the search printer option.

However when I try to add it following the installation instruction at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=101453 I cannot get the same printer installed automatically

Anyone tried this allready?

Looks like start of this available at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=101453

Looking forward to seeing this implemented!

I could imagine two steps:

1st the UP printers could get a url which could be set in a "Device Restriction" profile. Should be easy to implement I think.

2nd a native printer distribution page in intune where you can assign Rules how printers are deployed like based on AzureAD security group, device category, user gps device location.