

These five policy settings allow you to configure the notification levels and actions for


Enabling this policy setting allows you to provide the number of seconds before Windows reduces power to the hard drive.įigure 3- Hard drive power policy settings You use this policy setting to shut down the user hard drive after a specified amount of inactivity. As with the other power management categories, it categorizes these policy settings for when the computer is plugged-in and when the computer is on battery. Enabling any of these policy settings gives you a choice of The last setting controls the power button located on the Start menu. The four settings allow you to define the actions performed when the user presses the power or sleep button or, when the user closes the lid of the computer. You can further categorize these policy settings into two categories of four: policies for when the computer is , contains two settings, one settings allows you to deploy one of the standard power management configurations and the others allows you to specific a GUID of a customer power management configuration.Ĭategory. Power management Group Policy settings target computers therefore the majority of the settings are under the Computer Configuration. Operating systems other than Windows Vista ignore the settings. Also, these policy settings can co-exist in policies applicable to clients earlier than Windows Vista. These policy settings are new with Windows Vista and apply only to computers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista or. These categories and their policy settings are located underĬomputer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Power Management The categories I will write about this week include Power management is comprised of 34 policy settings grouped in 6 different categories. Windows Vista provides a tremendous amount of power management support through Group Policy. However, did you know that you can manage power on Windows XP using Group Policy as well? I decided to update the “Power” blog series to show you how Windows Server 2008 can help you manage power at the desktop for both Vista and Windows XP. Many of you probably know about the power management improvements included in Windows Vista and that you can manage power using Group Policy. This post was originally published in the Group Policy Team blog. First published on TechNet on Mar 17, 2008
