Is Universal Print secure and where does my printed data go?
With Universal Print, the print data goes via the cloud. This is very similar to the way other Microsoft enterprise technologies like Outlook, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams upload data in the cloud. All print data is stored in Office data storage like other Office technologies.
Universal Print stores data as follows:
- There is a storage provisioned for each user in Office storage – just like Outlook provisions a mailbox. The documents that the user prints are uploaded in Universal Print and stored in this user’s storage.
- Each printer has its own storage provisioned in Office storage too. The printer’s storage stores all the printer metadata and print queues. The print queues store only the print job metadata as the documents are stored in the user’s storage.
- Universal Print also provisions some metadata, like a list of printer shares in Azure. This information...