If you’re evaluating secure print solutions and “no AAD / Entra ID Connector” is on your requirements list — this article explains exactly how Celiveo 365 makes that a structural guarantee, not a workaround.
Native Entra ID authentication, zero print servers, zero agents on PCs.
Why requiring an AAD or Entra ID connector matters more than most people realize
The AAD / Entra ID Connector isn’t just annoying to maintain. It’s a symptom of a deeper architectural problem. Most print management platforms — even the ones marketed as “cloud” — were built around a server. Move that server to a VM in Azure, and you still need a connector to bridge your identity layer to it. You’ve moved the infrastructure without removing it.
Celiveo 365 was built differently.
It’s a native Azure SaaS application, registered directly inside your Microsoft 365 tenant. It talks to Entra ID the same way Teams does. The same way SharePoint does. Through Microsoft Graph APIs, with least-privilege permissions you grant at subscription time.
What that means in practice:
→ A user taps their badge, enter their PIN or swipe their NFC mobile at the printer. Celiveo 365 validates their identity against Entra ID in real time — no sync lag, no cached directory, no connector in the middle.
→ You remove someone from an Entra ID group. Their related access rights are revoked, period.
→ You already enforce MFA via Conditional Access. Celiveo 365 inherits that automatically. Nothing extra to configure and MFA applies automatically to authentication using NFC mobile.
→ Your virtual print queues live in Microsoft Universal Print directly managed using your Entra ID inside Celiveo 365, one print queue for all users with access rights using Entra ID. Your documents are encrypted for each users using information from their Entra ID record.
And what disappears entirely: print servers, print drivers on endpoints, print agents on workstations, the SQL Server your print platform needs, the SMTP relay for scan-to-email — and yes, the AAD / Entra ID Connector.
The whole estate. Printing is managed from a browser.
- Secured by Entra ID.
- Deployed in an hour.
We’ve seen IT teams genuinely surprised by how clean the decommission list is.
Infrastructure they’d been maintaining for a decade, gone — not migrated, just gone, because the new architecture simply doesn’t need it.
You can easily calculate the new TCO.
If you’re evaluating how to remove the “AAD Connector” from print management, we’d love to show you how we’ve made that a structural guarantee rather than a workaround, contact us for a free POC or pilot!
