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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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.
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