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RotarexFVC
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Sep 23, 2021
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Remove requirement of UP licence for administration

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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  • 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.