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Windows print server
Hi I have a customer that wants to put his printer server on azure, and remove them onprem, what do you think on this? I would like to know how traffic between client server and printer really works...
- If you keep using a print server and configure all computers to print to that queue, the traffic will be computer -> Azure AD server -> printer. For some of our customers, I add all printers to their computers using Intune and the traffic pattern is computer -> printer. That way all traffic is directed towards the printer, there are no egress traffic costs from Azure back to on-prem, and printing is faster.
Yes in my case the customer wants to dismiss all on prem servers, and have dc and printer servers on azure cloud on 3 vm connected to the onprem via s2s vpn, so some egress traffic is needed.
I suggest having good reports on costs and comparing it later on to having universal print (if that's a good option for the type of printing) or distributing printers with local ip ports which is free but has some management costs for configuration
