Microsoft is working on a fix for a known issue impacting Windows 11 customers and causing a prompt for admin credentials before every attempt to print.
According to Microsoft, this problem impacts Windows environments where the print clients and print servers are in different time zones.
“You might receive a prompt for administrative credentials every time you attempt to print in environments in which the print server and print client are in different times zones,” the company explains.
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Affected platforms include both client and server Windows versions:
While Redmond has already fixed the problem for previously released Windows versions in September and October updates, a solution to address this issue is unavailable for Windows 11 customers for the moment.
Affected customers running previous Windows versions (including Windows 10) can fix the issues by installing the September Patch Tuesday and October Patch Tuesday cumulative updates.
Microsoft says an update that will fix this on Windows 11 is likely to be released in late October.
Luckily, the known issue should not impact home users since affected systems are more commonly found in enterprise environments.
Microsoft also confirmed other Windows 11 known issues which caused printers installation to fail on systems in enterprise environments last week.
As Redmond explained, printer installation processes may fail when attempted over the network on devices that access printers via print servers using HTTP connections.
Installing printers might also not complete successfully via the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) in organizations sharing IPP printers using printer connections.
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Last week, Microsoft confirmed a third known issue leading to custom printing properties not being correctly provided to print clients.
Even though not causing printing operations to fail, customers using impacted devices would only print with default settings.
The complete list of acknowledged known issues impacting Windows 11 includes:
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