HP UPD - System Administrator's Guide HP UPD 5.6.5

How HP AD/MPA policy gets applied to the driver
Unlike DCU configured drivers, AD/MPA policies are dynamic policy. What that means is, after the driver
installation, the administrator can change the policies from the server, and that change will get applied to all
the clients. The drivers on the clients will reflect the new policy.
For this to work, the UPD driver keeps on monitoring for policy changes, whenever a user tries to open the
Printing Preference or Printer Properties, or when the user tries to print. In these scenarios, if the UPD
detects that there is a policy change, it applies the new policy to the printer queues, and during this policy
application process, the UPD briefly opens up a dialog which shows the progress of the policy application.
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The policy application status window looks similar to this:
Following is a table when the policy is applied to a queue:
Scenario Action
The driver is installed with static mode and is in an AD or MPA
environment when there was no policy, but after the driver
installation, the administrator set a policy.
The dynamic policy application will take place.
The driver was installed after the policy was set on the server. The policy will be applied during installation, and dynamic policy
application will not take place until further policy change.
The driver was installed after the policy was set, but after
installation, the policies were changed from the server.
The dynamic policy application will take place.
The driver is installed in Dynamic mode. The policies are always applied when trying to open the printing
preference depending upon the refresh policy.
So the dialog that is coming up during opening up of the printing preference for the first time, is actually a
expected behavior, as the driver is trying to apply the policies, and once the policy is applied, it doesn’t try to
apply it again unless there is a change in the policy. So this is not a defect.
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