In reference to installation of drivers on Point and Print (Shared Printers) environment

November 2, 2021

Administrative privilege passwords get to be required to install newly or upgrade shared printers on the environment in which the security update program (Security update program KB5005652 on August 2021) distributed from Microsoft on August 10 2021 is applied.

Please see below to find the post installation potential impact on our drivers and how Microsoft is handing it as for as below.

Environmental Condition

Point and Print (Shared Printers) with drivers on Windows 10, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2016 with security update program KB5005652 installed on August 2021.

Affected drivers

FUJIFILM Business Innovation & Fuji Xerox printer drivers except Common Print Driver

Post Installation Potential Impacts

The warning message which requires administrative privilege is displayed when you start to install drivers on the client PCs’ users who do not even have any administrative privileges in Point and Print (shared printer) environment.

Case example

• When you are installing shared printer drivers newly
• When you try to upgrade printer drivers on client PCs using shared printer servers

Handling by Microsoft

For details on how Microsoft is handing the discussed issue, please refer to the official information posted by Microsoft in the given link below.
We would like our customer to confirm the available contents and then consider the countermeasures according to each individual customer’s environment.

Microsoft web page

KB5005652-Manage new Point and Print default driver installation behavior
(CVE-2021-34481)