Key Takeaways:
- Helps reduce potential data leakage risks and strengthens endpoint security
- Ensuring centralized management across enrolled Windows devices
- Aligns with Zero Trust principles
- Ensuring that device capabilities are tightly controlled and monitored
Let’s discuss Disable Client Computer Printing Over both HTTP and HTTPS using Intune. This is a security and networking configuration that dictates whether a Windows device can communicate with a printer using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over an HTTP connection.
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Disable Client Computer Printing Over both HTTP and HTTPS using Intune
By enabling this policy, admins can prevent the prevents the computer from sending print jobs or receiving printer status updates via HTTP/HTTPS. The computer will be restricted to traditional local printing methods (like USB) or standard network printing protocols (like RPC/SMB or JetDirect/Port 9100).
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How to Start Policy Creation
By sign in with your Credentials an admin can easily configure Printing Over both HTTP and HTTPS policy with Microsoft Intune. After Sign in Go to Devices > Configuration >+ Create > +New Policy.
Selecting Platform and Profile Type
Profile creation is the necessary step that helps you to assign the policy to appropriate platform and Profile. Here I would like to configure the policy to Windows 10 and later platform and settings catalog profile. Then click on the Create button.
Basic Tab for Name and Description
Naming the policy is the primary step that help admins to identify the policy later. This is important and necessary step that allows you to know the purpose of the policy. Here is Name is mandatory and description is optional. After adding this click on the Next button.
Configure Printing Over HTTP
With Settings Picker, you can use the Configuration Settings Tab. On this tab, you can click on the +Add Settings hyperlink to get the Settings Picker. The settings picker shows huge number of settings. Here, I would like to select the settings by browsing by Category. I choose System. Then, I choose Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication settings. Then choose Turn off printing over HTTP .
Disable Printing Over HTTP
If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, users can choose to print to Internet printers over HTTP. Click on the Next button to continue.
Enable HTTP Over Printing
If you enable this policy setting, it prevents this client from printing to Internet printers over HTTP. Click on the Next button to continue.
Scope Tags
With scope tags, you create a restriction to the visibility of the Printing Over HTTP. It helps to organise resources as well. Here, I would like to skip this section, because it is not mandatory. Click on the Next button.
Assignments Tab for Selecting Group
To assign the policy to specific groups, you can use the Assignment Tab. Here I click, +Add groups option under Included groups. I choose a group from the list of groups and click on the Select button. Again, I click on the Select button to continue.
Review + Create Tab
Before completing the policy creation, you can review each tab to avoid misconfiguration or policy failure. After verifying all the details, click on the Create Button. After creating the policy, you will get a success message.
Monitoring Status
The Monitoring Status page shows whether the policy has succeeded or not. To quickly configure the policy and take advantage of the policy sync the assigned device on Company Portal. Open the Intune Portal. Go to Devices > Configuration > Search for the Policy. Here, the policy shows as successful.
Event Viewer Details
Event Viewer helps you check the client side and verify the policy status. Open the Client device and open the Event Viewer. Go to Start > Event Viewer. Navigate to Logs: In the left pane, go to Application and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider > Admin.
| Event Viewer Details |
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| MDM PolicyManager: Set policy string, Policy: (DiablePrintingOverHTTP), Area: (Connectivity), EnrollmentID requesting merge: (EB427D85-802F-46D9-A3E2-D5B414587F63), Current User: (Device), String: (), Enrollment Type: (0x6), Scope: (0x0). |
Removing the Assigned Group from Printing Over both HTTP and HTTPS Settings
If you want to remove the Assigned group from the policy, it is possible from the Intune Portal. To do this, open the Policy on Intune Portal and edit the Assignments tab and the Remove Policy.
To get more detailed information, you can refer to our previous post – Learn How to Delete or Remove App Assignment from Intune using by Step-by-Step Guide.
How to Delete Printing Over both HTTP and HTTPS
You can easily delete the Policy from the Intune Portal. From the Configuration section, you can delete the policy. It will completely remove it from the client devices.
For detailed information, you can refer to our previous post – How to Delete Allow Clipboard History Policy in Intune Step by Step Guide.
Windows CSP Details
This policy setting specifies whether to allow printing over HTTP from this client. Printing over HTTP allows a client to print to printers on the intranet as well as the Internet.
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.