Printing in Windows 365 | Part 7, Universal Print and other options

[@GebranAntonios-r9j]

Great video thank you, i will try that

[@PetterTech]

Awesome! Just remember, if the printer starts acting like it’s on strike, don’t take it personally!

[@tayyabmohsin7349]

Amazing video, very insightful! Thanks

[@PetterTech]

Glad to be of service 👍

[@joemcclure5869]

Great clarity..thank you

[@PetterTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GanpatDange-k2x]

Thanks for this video

[@PetterTech]

You're very welcome, thanks for watching 👍

[@karatefutzi]

Thank you very much for this elaborate video ! i really appreciated it we are currently using PrintiX And would like to change to Universal print, but currently you cannot set different ques for the same printer ( tray 1 = que 1, tray 2 = que 2 etc.) Once microsoft implements that Universal print will be a promising project. Ps: also there are a lot of known issues while using win 10 env but with win 11 that works really really well !

[@PetterTech]

Thank you ;) It is kinda odd that Microsoft hasn’t implemented anything like that. After all, Universal Print has been around for a few years now 🤷‍♂️

[@Oddish08]

wow seriously! Thanks for letting me know

[@Oddish08]

Great video thank you

[@PetterTech]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JOXYOAN]

Can you have a tutorial of using Microsoft 365 on Word while printing? I find it very hard while printing and during using Page Break it does not work. We as Viewers would be happy if you do a tutorial of it, Thank you and God Bless!

[@alass128]

Interesting your video, but I have a problem in my organization, I am an administrator but I gave a technician the right to (print technician) to install Universal print and proceed with the configuration but he receives an error message during installation (you have not gathered the prerequisites to install this program), so is the right printer technician sufficient?

[@PetterTech]

Thank you for watching :) The Printer Administrator role should be sufficient. But he also needs a license for Universal Print.

[@gnuttz1972]

So once the universal print Connector is set up and a printer added to become a cloud printer and shared with selected users those users can then print to it as long as the printer is connected how? by wifi? does a port need to be open on a firewall to allow bidirectional traffic to allow printing?

[@PetterTech]

The device you install the connector on needs to be able to access the printer. That could be via USB or network depending on your setup. If by network you need the standard print port opened from the connector to the printer, I believe that usually is tcp 9100. From the device you install the connector on you need to have access to *.print.microsoft.com, *.microsoftonline.com, *.azure.com, *.msftauth.net, go.microsoft.com and aka.ms. The documentation doesn't state what ports are needed, but I assume HTTP and HTTPS. Clients would need the same openings. Hope this helps :)

[@gnuttz1972]

@@PetterTech thanks for this. So for on prem printing a local printer server is still required? A machine always in situ. Guess a simple pc running windows 10/11 may do but is there still a concurrent device limit in desktop windows? if used to be 10 i believe on older windows versions ?

[@PetterTech]

You can get away with no print server, but that requires the printers to be support the universal print service. Microsoft have a list of print manufacturers that support universal print and their supported models here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-partner-integrations#universal-print-ready-printers But if your printers don't support universal print you would need an on-prem print server yes. Windows 10/11 will do the trick, but I'm unsure as to the limits you mention

[@gnuttz1972]

@@PetterTech good to know that some printers support UPS with no need for a print server 👏👏

[@RankoKrneta]

How to connect printer directly to Azure Universal Print (*without connector)?

[@PetterTech]

The process varies between printers and manufacturers so there is no 1 simple answer I'm afraid. But if your printer supports universal print then there should be something about registering it with universal print in the manuals. Or you might have to contact the vendor for assistance. I don't have any printers around that supports universal print myself, so I'm afraid that's the best answer I can give you

[@Off_The_Post_SA]

So if your internet is down nobody can print?

[@PetterTech]

Nope. That's kinda how it is with the cloud. Besides, if your internet is down you can't access Windows 365 either 🤷