When MCP is deployed and managed without ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), the policy file (MCPPolicy.opg) must be manually deployed to MCP.
Use the following steps to manually load a policy into MCP:
For Microsoft Windows:
- Copy the MCP policy file to the client system that has MCP installed.
- Find the common application data directory C:\ProgramData\.
- Open the temporary policy directory under the common application data directory:
...\McAfee\MCP\Policy\Temp\
- Make sure that the policy file is named MCPPolicy.opg and put it into the temporary directory.
After a few seconds, the policy file is loaded and is moved to the parent directory of Temp. If the file is not moved, make sure that the MCPService.exe service is running. If needed, start it with the net start mcpservice command.
For macOS:
- Copy the MCP policy file (MCPPolicy.opg) to the client that has MCP installed.
- On your client, navigate to usr/local/Mcafee/mcp/policy.
- Copy MCPPolicy.opg to this location and wait a few seconds for the policy file to load.
