HP UPD - System Administrator's Guide HP UPD 5.6.5

If the administrator wants to assign settings or printers based on who is using the computer, the choice is
whether to use Active Directory (AD) or HP Managed Printing Administration (HP MPA).
Use Active Directory?
The decision to use Active Directory versus HP MPA depends first on whether there is an Active Directory
domain available, and the granularity of policy desired.
To set up Active Directory Policy, the administrator defines the policy settings in a Group Policy Object, (GPO)
and then assigns that GPO to the domain, site, one or more Organizational Units (OU) or users. Group Policy
Objects cannot be assigned to security groups. If the administrator wants to set up domain wide or site wide
policy with overrides for specific individuals, then AD is a viable choice. On the other hand, if the
administrator wants finer grained policy than the OU structure can provide, the options are to restructure the
AD structure or use HP MPA.
HP Managed Printing Administration allows the administrator to set up arbitrary groups and to assign users
to those groups. HP MPA also provides the means to set up a default policy, which is the policy that a user will
receive if there is no specific user or group policy assigned to them. This way only exceptions to the general
policy need to be managed, instead of adding all the users to the HP MPA database.
230 Appendix I HP UPD deployment flowcharts ENWW