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HP Universal Printer Driver not using applied GPO settings

We are testing HP UPD 5.5. with Managed Printer Lists deployed by AD GPO settings. We have installed HP Universal Printer Driver 5.5 in Dynamic Mode on Windows 7 64bit. Browsing for network printers works fine.

We also created some GPO settings using the ADMX Template "HP Managed Print Policies 4.3.8). All settings are successfully deployed to the computer (in RegKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Hewlett-Packard\HP Print Settings\ADSPrintPolicy) but the HP Universal Printer Driver continues to use the local settings (in RegKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Hewlett-Packard\HP Print Settings).

We have been enabled all GPO settings necessary according HP Admin Guide 5.3 (Guide 5.5. not yet available but issue also occurs when using a 5.3.x driver)

Any ideas are highly appreciated. Thx.

Michael Pfister

I know it won't help you, but you're not alone...

Michael Pfister

Ok, the ADMX template supplied by HP has a problem:

line 57 reads

<boolean id="EnablePolicyforallusers" key="$(string.unknown_6)" valueName="UPDADS" />

but it should read

<boolean id="EnablePolicyforallusers" key="Software\Hewlett-Packard\HP Print Settings" valueName="UPDADS" >
<trueValue>
<decimal value="19728374" />
</trueValue>
<falseValue>
<decimal value="0" />
</falseValue>
</boolean>

(derived from ADM file)

Before modifying the HP-MPP-4.3.8.ADMX, remove the setting from the policy!

Michael Pfister

Some settings do work now, but the setting to disable the Internet Services is not ...

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Thanks for your help. Worked out perfect for us.