Windows 7 power management group policy settings

Power management is comprised of 34 policy settings grouped in 6 different categories. These policy settings are new with Windows Vista and apply only to computers running Windows Server or Windows Vista or. Also, these policy settings can co-exist in policies applicable to clients earlier than Windows Vista. Operating systems other than Windows Vista ignore the settings.

Power management Group Policy settings target computers therefore; the majority of the settings are under the Computer Configuration. The main category, Power Management , 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. Under Power Management is the Button Category.

This category has eight policy settings. That's it - you've got your power plan set up, and after a few restarts and gpupdates the settings should be applying to your test machines.

Once you're happy with the results, attach the policy to your computers OU, and start seeing the rewards. More information and pictures! Having a good power plan is great to have in place, if for no other reason than to save a few extra dollars for your employer. Is there any way to have different power settings for different times? For example, hibernate the system after 20 mins but only after work hours.

I'd even like to shutdown the computer if there is no user logged in. There certainly is. If you click on the link that I included at the end of the How-To, it'll take you to a page with illustrations - from Image 5 onwards, it tells you how to do just that. Great article, Simple and very informative, I have one hurdle I have applied the policy.

But, a standard user able to edit these options by browsing to Control panel and power options. We would like to block this feature and make sure users are not allowed to edit this features. I don't know about preventing them from changing it, but as it's a policy, it'll be reset every time they login or do a GPupdate. One thing you could do is restrict by policy what the users can actually see in Control Panels, that'd stop them changing it.

I have a group of users that I do not want the power scheme applied to. I added the users to a security group and and denied the security group 'Read' and 'Apply group policy'. I discover that these users still have the power management scheme created by my GPO as active. How do I ensure that this power management scheme is removed for the users in the exception security group? How does this work if the policy is applied to users and not PCs?

If the user logs out at the end of the day the policy would no longer apply correct? Thanks for the explanation. What would be the best way if want certain use exceptions for specific user whatever computer they are accessing? To find out which computers are excluded from power management, run the report Computers Excluded. For more information about this report see How to monitor and plan for power management.

Excluding a computer from power management causes all power settings to be reverted to their original values. You cannot revert individual power settings to their original values. In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Assets and Compliance workspace, and select the Device Collections node. Select the collection that you want to exclude from power management. In the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Properties group, select Properties. Switch to the Power Management tab, and select Never apply power management settings to computers in this collection.

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