Remove requirement of UP licence for administration

[Steve Burkett]

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 Allow access to unlicensed admins 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.

[om3ga116]

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.

[Seynaef]

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.

[Mark_Allcock]

Administrators do not consume the service - they administer/manage it. Consuming a costly license just to manage a feature/service seems ludicrous to me and needs to be changed a.s.a.p.

[WillieStyle]

It is so stupid that I have to switch web browsers to my "normal user account" to which I have applied the Print Administrator roll just so that I can administrate this one piece of the Azure / Intune puzzle. I don't think it's very smart for me to have my normal user account also be the global administrator account, so I have two accounts like most IT Administrators do. But, because of this dumb policy, I have to use my normal account just for this one task, OR I can spend EVEN MOAR MONEY and apply a stand-alone universal print license to my global admin account just so I can administrate that feature. SO DUMB!!!

[Sander de Wit]

@Jimmy_Wu any updates on this feature as a year ago the status was changed to looking into it?

[DCollins11]

Adding to this, in a large global org with hundreds of admins and thousands of printers, this would necessitate adding a full M365 E3 license just to allow them to register and admin some printers.

These admin accounts do not need the full features of a M365 E3, that's what their user accounts are for.

[DC5000]

@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.

[Jimmy_Wu]

The team is focused on other features at this moment, so no updates on this particular feature request.

[MickyP]

Has this feature request been added to the UP roadmap? This is crazy that admin accounts need to be licensed! 

[Akhil_Gopal_C]

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.

[WilliamGi]

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.