HP UPD - System Administrator's Guide HP UPD 5.6.5

Table of contents
1 Purpose and scope ......................................................................................................................................... 1
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 1
Conventions used in this guide .............................................................................................................................. 3
2 Software description ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 5
System requirements ............................................................................................................................................ 7
Software availability .............................................................................................................................................. 9
3 Plan an HP UPD deployment ......................................................................................................................... 11
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
The five steps to a successful deployment ......................................................................................................... 11
Initiation and planning ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Understand your printing requirements and environment .............................................................. 12
Determine deployment objectives ................................................................................. 12
Print servers or Direct IP ................................................................................................. 12
Identify stakeholders ...................................................................................................... 12
Make an inventory .......................................................................................................... 12
Consider PDL needs ........................................................................................................ 12
Driver considerations ...................................................................................................... 13
Pre-configuration, policy and access requirements ...................................................... 13
Environment and network compatibility ....................................................................... 13
Baseline the system ........................................................................................................ 13
Risk management ........................................................................................................... 13
Key deployment decisions ................................................................................................................ 14
Create a list of required drivers ...................................................................................... 14
Choose an installation method ...................................................................................... 14
Driver Pre-Configuration ................................................................................................ 14
Traditional and dynamic mode ....................................................................................... 14
Manage the HP UPD with HP MPA or Active Directory Group Policy .............................. 15
Estimate time requirements ........................................................................................... 15
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