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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This is an absolute joke. By practicing good IT security, this system causes customers to wait up to 24 hours for each universal print issue. As assigning the license can take 24 hours to apply to the portal. Most of our customers have moved away from Universal Print due to these restrictions, but it still makes me cringe at how incompetent a system this is. And the excuse for nearly 5 years of this mess? "We are working on other features". I guess if it doesn't have a CoPilot logo slapped on it, it gets left to the wayside to rot and die.
Agreed. Several of our customers have either moved off Universal Print or rejected proposals to implement it because of these licensing issues and its inability to be managed by Partner administrators. We've moved on to other print management products
When will the requirement for a license be removed?
Also unable to manage printers through GDAP relationship because of this requirement
This is important, as requiring a license for administration results in less secure environments. If the license for use is required for administration, companies are then encouraged to give the administrator role to the regular use accounts of IT personnel in order to save costs. Giving administrator roles to regular use accounts, rather than administrator accounts, is well known to be a Bad Idea
Hi Jimmy_Wu. Per other comments, it's been over a year since the last update. Can you please advise if this is on the roadmap yet? Thanks.
This was requested in 2021, why is this still a thing and not yet implemented? This is of course a rhetorical question, just add me to the list.
There are organization using separate accounts for administration of various M365, Azure platform with respective to Azure roles and without need of license package. Universal print is one of the platform service where administrator has to operate with Azure role as "Global admin or Printer Administrator" without an license requirement. I strong suggest this will be a requirement from security perspective for company following different access standards for user and administrator accounts.
Has this feature request been added to the UP roadmap? This is crazy that admin accounts need to be licensed!
The team is focused on other features at this moment, so no updates on this particular feature request.
Jimmy_Wu any update on this? We are just getting started with UP and it's mind blowing that an admin with an Azure P2 license can't administer printing for our enterprise users. The admin doesn't print, the admin administers...
Microsoft please update? It's been a year and a half since the status change.
