Unlike nearly the whole of Azure for some inexplicable reason to just administrate Universal Printing the account must have a licence for UP. Please remove this requirement but by all means prevent the account from using the service normally - why is a licence needed?
We have a corporate policy that all Azure admin accounts are separate to any user account i.e. as Global Admin I have my day to day account and my separate Azure admin account for performing administration in Azure/M365. We do not allow these accounts to have any licences as they should not be used for any other purpose, not even an Exchange licence.
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Adding to this, in a large global org with hundreds of admins and thousands of printers, this would necessitate adding a full M365 E3 license just to allow them to register and admin some printers.
These admin accounts do not need the full features of a M365 E3, that's what their user accounts are for.
Jimmy_Wu any updates on this feature as a year ago the status was changed to looking into it?
It is so stupid that I have to switch web browsers to my "normal user account" to which I have applied the Print Administrator roll just so that I can administrate this one piece of the Azure / Intune puzzle. I don't think it's very smart for me to have my normal user account also be the global administrator account, so I have two accounts like most IT Administrators do. But, because of this dumb policy, I have to use my normal account just for this one task, OR I can spend EVEN MOAR MONEY and apply a stand-alone universal print license to my global admin account just so I can administrate that feature. SO DUMB!!!
Administrators do not consume the service - they administer/manage it. Consuming a costly license just to manage a feature/service seems ludicrous to me and needs to be changed a.s.a.p.
Please remove this dependency. Admins are not using the functionality of the solution, they are only needed to manage the environment for the real users. It's like demanding that somebody working in a car garage to have a drivers license. He doesn't drive the car, he manages it. The drivers licenses is mandatory for the real users of the car.
This also impacts MSP's as we should not require a license to set this up for our clients and to do future administration. This would also be helpful to administer with Delegate rights to a tenant.
Microsoft Intune also originally went down this path, starting with all admins needing an Intune license to get in the admin portal. They eventually backtracked on it and added a https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/fundamentals/unlicensed-admins#:~:text=the%202006%20release.-,Allow%20access,access%20to%20unlicensed%20admins%20%3E%20Yes.&text=You%20can%27t%20undo%20this%20setting%20after%20clicking%20Yes. option in the Tenant administration settings, which is now set to on by default for all new instances.
So there is precedence for not requiring a license in order to do admin work.
- Status changed:NewtoLooking into it
