Universal Print Powershell Module

👋 Introduction

The UniversalPrintManagement PowerShell module is designed for managing and administrating Universal Print resources from the command line.

INFO

The code samples on the official Microsoft Learn Page do not work at the moment, so I corrected them and you can find them together with the standard commands below or as scipts in my Github.

💿 Installation

Microsoft provides a special Poweshell Module to manage Universal Print.

Install-Module UniversalPrintManagement

🔛 Microsoft Graph Connection

Connect to the Microsoft Graph with this special Universal Print Powershell Module command.

Connect-UPService

🛃 Powershell Module Commands

The following command retrieves a list of all available cmdlets in the Universal Print Management module.

Get-Command -Module UniversalPrintManagement

Below you find the available commands, along with their descriptions.

Sign-in

Cmdlet	Description
Connect-UPService	Connects with an authenticated account to use for Universal Print cmdlet requests.

Printers

Cmdlet	Description
Get-UPPrinter	Use this cmdlet to get information about a single or list of printers.
Remove-UPPrinter	Use this cmdlet to unregister printers.

Printer Properties

Cmdlet	Description
Set-UPPrinterProperty	Use this cmdlet to update mutable properties of a printer.

Printer Shares

Cmdlet	Description
New-UPPrinterShare	Use this cmdlet to share a printer.
Get-UPPrinterShare	Use this cmdlet to get information about a single or list of shared printers.
Remove-UPPrinterShare	Use this cmdlet to unshare printers that have been shared earlier.
Set-UPPrinterShare	Use this cmdlet to update a printer share to swap a registered printer due for maintenance with a working one.

User Permissions

Cmdlet	Description
Grant-UPAccess	Use this cmdlet to grant print access to a user or group or all users in the organization.
Revoke-UPAccess	Use this cmdlet to revoke print access from a user or group or all users in the organization.
Get-UPAllowedMember	Use this cmdlet to get information about users and groups that have print access to a specific printer.

Connectors

Cmdlet	Description
Get-UPConnector	Use this cmdlet to get information about a single or list of connectors.
Remove-UPConnector	Use this cmdlet to unregister connectors.

Connector Properties

Cmdlet	Description
Set-UPConnectorProperty	Use this cmdlet to update mutable properties of a connector.

Print Jobs

Cmdlet	Description
Get-UPPrintJob	Use this cmdlet to get information about print jobs that were sent to a printer.

Print Job Reports

Cmdlet	Description
Get-UPUsageReport	Use this cmdlet to get different types of print usage reports.

📜 Use Case Samples

Batch share all printers

Import-Module UniversalPrintManagement
connect-uPService

$printers = get-upprinter
foreach($printer in $printers.results){
    new-upprintershare -PrinterId $printer.id -ShareName $printer.displayname -confirm
}

Batch grant all users access to shared printers

Import-Module UniversalPrintManagement
connect-uPService
 
$Shares = Get-UPPrinterShare
foreach($share in $shares.results){Grant-UPAccess -ShareID $share.id -AllUsersAccess}

Remove all Shares

Import-Module UniversalPrintManagement
connect-uPService

$shares = get-upPrinterShare
foreach($share in $shares.results){remove-upprintershare -ShareID $share.id -confirm}