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5.11 Group Organization

Group Organization defines which Active Directory property to use to query group activity and costs for each

user. The three options for organization are Primary Group, Organizational Unit, or Active Directory

Properties.

Figure 5-11

Group Organization

Primary Group and Organizational Unit (default OU is Users) are the standard Active Directory properties.
Active Directory Properties allow for the selection of available AD properties; or a property can be specified

by entering a valid AD property as text. If the option is configured on the HP Access Control (HP AC) Job

Accounting Server, and security has been configured to disable Anonymous access on the HP Access Control

(HP AC) Job Accounting web site in the IIS console, a list of AD properties populates a drop-down list.

Otherwise, only an input field displays and the property must be supplied as text input.

NOTE:

A complete network scan must be launched to update the database if Organizational Unit or Active

Directory Properties is selected.

5.12 Group management

Group management defines how print jobs are allocated to the groups of your network, which affects the

result of some queries and modifies the printing cost charges per group user.
A single user may belong to several groups. For example, a user can belong to the Development group, the

Accounting group, and the Management group. The user can be attached to one specific group or several, if

desired. Each user could be assigned to a favorite group. In this manner, all printing activity related to a user

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