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- Sean_CragoBrass Contributor
This is a big one, and its absence deeply undermines the "Universal Print" branding.
Ideally, any InTune-managed device should be able to leverage Universal Print on an OS level, to include Android and iOS/iPadOS. For Android, this would be one rare feature that you'd likely want to blur the lines between the personal and work sides of a device, too, allowing for a user to print just as freely from a PDF shared over WhatsApp by an external contact as they could a Word doc on the protected work side.
But acknowledging the complexity of all that, it's critically important that the iOS and Android app devs add print capabilities to all major mobile Office apps, most critically Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive.
Expecting users to be able to remember to and master any MFA complexities of giving up on those apps that lack this feature and instead reverting to the mobile web UX or some weird Edge workaround isn't realistic.
Live up to the name, and ensure that all product teams working on Office for mobile devices universally enable access to Universal Print.
- Thomas_Schmidt1701Copper Contributor
I also would like to give an upvote for the ability to use Universal printing from the Office mobile apps.
- NikoNevalainenCopper Contributor
This would be the perfect addition to Mobile management.
- Louis SimonettiCopper Contributor
Any update on this? would be nice if something call *universal print* was universal.
- kadadmCopper Contributor
is it known whether microsoft is working on this idea of making mobile printing available for iOS and Android?
- rbuzzell_generalcodeTin Contributor
I'm not finding that the mobile browser option is working for me.
I'm definitely hoping for an integration into AirPrint of some sort, since IIRC that's all IPP under the hood.
- FrankBastoneBrass Contributor
Thanks MickaelLap for confirming and the quick response. I agree that being limited to the browser is not ideal nor the best user experience. It also means updating existing conditional access rules to permit Edge browser (if this is something you are currently blocking/controlling). More importantly though, this 5 jobs per user per month limitation is a real show-stopper (despite the ability to pool or buy add-ons). Hoping Microsoft reconsiders these limitations (similar to how it's changed other licenses as a result of dismal adoption). Cheers.
- MickaelLapBrass Contributor
FrankBastone I also did this test on IOS and it is working as AndreasAsander said. I would add the following:
- You must use the Web version of OneDrive (in Edge Browser) not the Native Mobile App
- On a mobile device, this is not a great User Experience (but it work)
This is not a solution we can consider for our business users. Still waiting (hoping) for this feature to be integrated natively within the O365 Mobile App Suite.
- FrankBastoneBrass Contributor
Thanks AndreasAsander. Did you mean installing the the "Office" App (as you mentioned Edge)? Can anyone from Microsoft confirm this please (ie able to print to any available universal print via IOS/MAC/Android?
- dsp2020Copper Contributor
Printing for Non Corporate ( IOS, Android, Windows, Linux ) BYOD devices would help position outside the corporate environment. i.e Libraries, SMB Market
Specially if users printing payments could be securely managed via an App.