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ChrisP1975
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Oct 29, 2021
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Universal Print Post Deployment

I am just starting to test out Universal Printing as I am looking to move from GPO to Intune in my Hybrid environment.  I was able to successfully deploy a printer, however I do have a few questions ...
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    Saurabh_Bansal
    Oct 29, 2021

    ChrisP1975 - Welcome to the shared journey with Universal Print 🙂

     

    1. Assigning permissions to a printer is different from deploying printers. Once user has permissions for the printer, they can either add the printer themselves on their device, or an admin can push the printers using Endpoint Manager (https://aka.ms/UPIntuneTool).
    2. If you have already deployed a CSV - did it have all the printers initially? If you need to add printers to the CSV, then you will have deprovision the old CSV package and deploy the new CSV as a new Intune package. This behavior is specific to MEM for any provisioning that needs to replace old file with new file.
    3. Best way to check deployment of new CSV will be to find the file and check if its contents are updated (which I think you are already doing :)).

    Thanks,

    Saurabh

     

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Saurabh_Bansal
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Oct 29, 2021

ChrisP1975 - Welcome to the shared journey with Universal Print 🙂

 

  1. Assigning permissions to a printer is different from deploying printers. Once user has permissions for the printer, they can either add the printer themselves on their device, or an admin can push the printers using Endpoint Manager (https://aka.ms/UPIntuneTool).
  2. If you have already deployed a CSV - did it have all the printers initially? If you need to add printers to the CSV, then you will have deprovision the old CSV package and deploy the new CSV as a new Intune package. This behavior is specific to MEM for any provisioning that needs to replace old file with new file.
  3. Best way to check deployment of new CSV will be to find the file and check if its contents are updated (which I think you are already doing :)).

Thanks,

Saurabh

 

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    ChrisP1975
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    Oct 29, 2021

    Saurabh_Bansal 

     

    Thank you for this info. A few follow-up questions:

     

    1. Is there a specific way that the user should manually add the printer? Right now you would connect to the print server \\printserver locate the printer and connect. I know that would still work, but is there a different method you would use for Universal Printing?

    2. You are correct I did deploy the CSV and it did not have all the printers.  I did create a new intunewin application package and deployed that.  Sound like I will need to delete the old app and create a new one.

    3. Yes I am checking for the printers.csv file, however its not looking for a newer version.  It just says that it exists (which is true) but it sounds like I may need to check the date.

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