Re: Power Management GPO?

Yes, that's what I'm finding. I have everything setup, I can see by running
gpresult on the client computer that the GPO's are being applied. They just
aren't taking effect.

With EZ-GPO there is a small client executable that needs to be installed.
I can't even get that to work. I can install it manually but not using a
GPO, even though gpresult shows it as being applied. I don't know what the
secret is to that.

I'm not familiar with POWERCFG but I'll look into it. I'm also not very
experienced at writing scripts but I'll take a shot at it. An example would
sure be helpful, especially the bit about the registry flag.

Thanks much,
Linn

"Jeremy" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Power management settings are evil. Like a few other settings it appears
that the registry is just where they get stored. From my fiddling it
appears that you can change the registry setting but the GUI setting
doesn't change until next startup, or sometimes even ever. It appears
that the power management API probably retrieves the configured values
from here during system startup then stores them in memory or somewhere
else because now matter how much manual modification I did, I could never
get settings to stick, so here is my suggestion:

Use POWERCFG. If you simply want to set the settings once, write a script
that makes the changes and the drops in a registry flag to indicate the
state so that it doesn't keep running all the time. If you want to set
the settings for different times of the day as suggested by another
poster, then put in a scheduled task running as SYSTEM that changes the
settings based on the time of day. Adding the scheduled task can also be
scripted in a startup script using schtaks.exe.

Good luck.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All,

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?

Oh, this is an active domain network with Windows 2003 Server domain
controllers.

Thanks in advance,
Linn





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