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How Users See Policies
Group policies are defined on the server by the system administrator. Once defined, Windows
propagates the policies to the operating system registry on each individual user’s computer. Each time a
user logs on to Windows on his or her computer, Windows checks the policies that apply to that user,
depending not only on the individual user name but also on the user groups to which he or she belongs.
The Dell Open Print Driver will read the policy values from the user’s registry whenever needed to apply
the policy, such as when the Discovery dialog is to be shown or when the Printing Preferences dialog is
to be shown.
The Dell Open Print Driver will tailor the Printing Preferences dialog to reflect any policies that are in
effect for the current user. The dialog controls for affected features will be enabled or disabled based
on whether or not the user is authorized to use those particular features; or the control will contain the
specific value that a policy requires for the feature.
For example, if the system administrator has disabled color printing, the radio button for Gray Scale will
be selected and the radio buttons for both Color and Gray Scale will be disabled so that the user cannot
change them. Similarly, if the system administrator has set a policy for Print Quality, the Print Quality
drop list will be pre-set to the quality level defined in the policy and the control will be disabled so that
the user cannot change them. Both of these are illustrated in the following screen shot:
