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How HP MPA policy gets applied to the driver
Unlike DCU configured drivers, MPA policies are dynamic policies. What that means is that 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 HP 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 HP UPD detects that
there is a policy change, it applies the new policy to the printer queues, and during this policy application process, the
HP 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:
Figure I-7 Policy application status window
Table I-44 When the policy is applied to a queue
The driver is installed with static mode and is in an 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 the 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 preferences depending upon the refresh policy.
The dialog that is coming up when opening the Printing preference for the first time is actually an expected behavior,
as the driver is trying to apply the policies. Once the policy is applied, it does not try to apply it again unless there is a
change in the policy. This is not a defect.
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