Distribute printers with Intune or native via universal print

We dont have the printer provisioning option in intune. It seams that our tennant diddnt have the last updates.

Actually it wil be nice if we can assign the cloud managed printers based on filters like IP subnet or connected WIFI SSID or something like that.

lets say if the client Laptop is connected in subnet 10.1.20.x  and the printer is in the same subnet. Then there is no user action needed and the printers are assigned and pushd to the client laptop. 

Awesome!

Please refer to Universal Print settings available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Tech Community for announcement on native Intune/ Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) solution.

This solution is currently available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices.

Windows 10 availability - Releasing Windows 10 Build 19044.1806 to Release Preview Channel | Windows Insider Blog

@Daniel Harker - thanks for the feedback. I recommend taking a look at this blog post - There is more to Universal Print - Microsoft Tech Community. There is a screenshot for upcoming Microsoft Endpoint Management (MEM) integration with Windows.

Please let us know if you have any questions/feedback.

Saurabh_Bansal 

Thanks @Derek Gabriel / @Daniel Harker for the feedback. We understand that experience may not be best for the customers - however it was designed with the constraints that Windows OS versions was already released. We are working to improve the experience in the future versions of Windows.

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So on this basis you've got your act together for Windows 11?

Of course you haven't.

Agree, this is not the requested or workable way ....

Microsoft, you kind of let us down with the distribution part...

For the rest "Awesome" idea.... it just needs a bit of tweaking

I know this is listed as complete, but I don't agree, like many others. I think the approach should be built into Intune. If it can be done with Group Policies, it should be able to be done with Intune. add it as a configuration option.

Thanks dsghi / Daniel Harker for the feedback. We understand that experience may not be best for the customers - however it was designed with the constraints that Windows OS versions was already released. We are working to improve the experience in the future versions of Windows.

This should not be listed as completed; it's a mess to try to do this.

The perfect scenario would be deployment without having to package anything and add it as a Win32 app - the service should know the printers exists, is available, and automatically install the requisite connection.

If the user is licensed and the printer is shared to a group the user is in, why do we have to create a CSV file and a bunch of other crap to make it work? - needs improvement before prime time.

The UP assignment is lacking quite a bit. would be much better to be able to be able to assign based on location, especially for distributed enterprises. Places with multiple locations often have general use printers, and would be great to have a list of known networks, and then printers get assigned to devices that are in those networks. If a travels to another location, they shouldn't have to put in a ticket to get a printer assigned to them. It should be dynamic where there are known locations or networks, printers assigned to them, and then automatically added based on the devices location. 

The Location properties already exist in the Universal Print printer properties. Now you just need to match those locations up with a subnet and then that functionality is there.