I want to access my network printer on public Cloud (Azure) on VM Role or Web Role or Worker Role

Question

Hi,

I have a printer which is On-Premise. I want to access the On-premise Printer to Azure Environment . 

Is there a possible way that we can achive this.

scenario :- Suppose I have a VM on Azure and i want to print a page from that VM to my On-Premise Printer.

This is required on urgent basis.

 

Thanks

Deep Sharma

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With Warm Regards Deep Sharma

Answer 1

Sharma,

Have you looked at Azure Connect?

Connect provides an IPSEC level VPN between a machine on premise (with a little client installed) and your roles / group of roles.

It's typically used when a cloud application needs to 'reach in' to your on premise systems and grab data etc.

Whilst I've not tried it for printing, I don't see why a printer on that machine couldn't be shared and made available to the instance(s) in the cloud.

Take a look at the Azure Connect overview (if you're not seen it already)...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg432997.aspx

Kind regards,

Matt

Answer 2

It should be possible by using Azure Connect or even if your printer is accessible from the internet by using it's IP.

Answer 3

I have personally implemented the same application using Azure components and Service Bus. Here is the architecture of the application.

Later on I have added

• file repository
• count or quota based controlled printing

 

Service bus is more than enough to tackle all problems of IP, connections etc. Feel free ask about the application.

HTH

 

Answer 4

Hi ,

Can you please elaborate on your application and provide me some details .

How do you do it and send a print request from a worker or web role from Azure environment.

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With Warm Regards

Deep Sharma

 

Answer 5

You can simply use google cloud print to simplify your life.