Re: Power Management GPO?

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"Florian Frommherz" <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Howdie!

Linn Kubler wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to set the power settings of the computers
in my organization. They are almost all Windows XP Pros, a couple
Windows 2000 Pro but I'm not going to worry about them right now.

I know that Microsoft set this up so that a standard User does not have
rights to change the power settings and so far I have not been able to
find a way to set them globally.

I have been looking at EZ GPO from Terranovum but it only gets me part
way there. There are a couple settings that it doesn't address. What do
you folks do, how do you handle this... or don't you?

EZ GPO sets the time outs for the User monitor timeout, System standby
timeout and Hibernation timeout, but what about the other settings? Hard
Disk timeout, Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby,
When I press the power button on my computer and Hibernate
enable/disable? How can I go about setting those options?

If you can understand a little German, you might want to try Mark
Heitbrink's ADM template on power schemes:
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/adm/powerscheme.txt

cheers,

Florian
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Florian,

Beyond the language barriers I don't think I understand how these templates
work. I also found another thread on this news group that suggests a
template but the template he suggests looks just like the one on my system.
I'm referring to a post made by Norbert Fehlauer on 10/17/2005. His
template looks like this:

CLASS USER
CATEGORY "Power scheme"

POLICY "Enable Powerconfig for Desktop PCs"
EXPLAIN !!PwrCfg_Hlp
KEYNAME "Control Panel\PowerCfg"
PART "Choose Poweroption" DROPDOWNLIST
VALUENAME "CurrentPowerPolicy"
NOSORT
REQUIRED
ITEMLIST
NAME "Home/Office" VALUE 0
NAME "Portable/Laptop" VALUE 1
NAME "Presentation" VALUE 2
NAME "Always on" VALUE 3
NAME "Minimal Power Management" VALUE 4
NAME "Max Battery" VALUE 5
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY

[STRINGS]
PwrCfg_Hlp="Home/Office Desk-> For desktop computers, this scheme is
installed with Typical/Compact/Custom Setup options.\n\nPortable/Laptop->
Optimized for portable computers, this scheme includes aggressive settings
for running on batteries (the AC settings are the same as desktop). This
scheme is installed with Typical/Compact/Custom/Portable Setup
options.\n\nPresentation-> This scheme prevents the computer from going into
Standby mode. It is intended for use with computer presentations, when you
need the computer display to stay on.\n\nAlways On-> For use with personal
servers, this scheme is similar to Home/Office, but has the Standby timer
disabled and disk drive timer increased. It is installed when you install a
server.\n\nMinimal Power Management-> In this scheme, some power management
features, such as timed hibernation or a timed event that can put the disk
drive in a sleep mode, are disabled.\n\nMax Battery-> To conserve as much
battery power as possible, this scheme allows a relatively short time of
inactivity before it places the computer in a power saving state."

I just don't see any specific settings here. It just looks to me like this
code simply re-populates the control. I thought for a minute that selecting
a Power Scheme would control the entire system but it does not seem to.

Thanks,
Linn


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