HP UPD - Using Managed Printer Lists with HP Web Jetadmin (WJA) (for use with Active Directory Administrator Template)

INTRODUCTION

In enterprise environments where print policy is managed using Microsoft® Active Directory Group

Policy and the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD), administrators must be able to create Managed Printer

Lists. This paper describes how to create and deploy Managed Printer Lists (MPLs) for HP UPD version

4.7 and later, using HP Web Jetadmin 10.1 and later.

OPERATION OVERVIEW

The Managed Printer List (MPL) is an XML file that is placed on an HTTP web server somewhere on the

enterprise network. In the following example, that HTTP web server is assumed to be on the same

physical computer as the one where HP Web Jetadmin is installed. At print time, the HP Universal

Print Driver performs an HTTP “GET” to the server to download the XML file. The URL string where the

XML file is located is entered by the print administrator into the Administrative Template, and is stored

in the windows registry on the computer where the HP UPD is running.

Assumptions

It is assumed that the administrator already knows how to discover devices and to create device

Groups using HP Web Jetadmin (WJA). For more information, see the white papers, “Discovering

devices in HP Web Jetadmin” and “Best practices for managing your assets using HP Web Jetadmin”

at www.hp.com/go/wja

Figure 1—Sample device group (named “Brian 2”) containing six devices