Power Management & GPO

[Vin'c]

Hi there,

I'm working on W2003 Server with AD/DNS/DHCP + WinXP SP1 as clients.
Problem : I can't modify the delay values of my XP clients in the power
management utility.
Some defauts values are set but I can't change them.

When loggin into with a User account, an error message told me that Access
to power management policy is denied.
When i do the same with an admin user, i can change them but only for the
session, not the workstation (if i log again with a user account, old values
are back)

Question 1 : is there a way to set these values inside a GPO ?
Question 2 : is there a way to set a kind of PowerManagement Policy that can
be, like a gpo, on all my domain ?
Question 3 : the error message told something about a PM Policy. where can i
find it ?

Thanks for your help,
Best Regard

Vincent
PS : english is not my mother tongue so please be clever...

 

[lforbes]

Hi there,

I'm working on W2003 Server with AD/DNS/DHCP + WinXP SP1 as
clients.
Problem : I can't modify the delay values of my XP clients in
the power
management utility.
Some defauts values are set but I can't change them.

When loggin into with a User account, an error message told me
that Access
to power management policy is denied.
When i do the same with an admin user, i can change them but
only for the
session, not the workstation (if i log again with a user
account, old values
are back)

Question 1 : is there a way to set these values inside a GPO ?
Question 2 : is there a way to set a kind of PowerManagement
Policy that can
be, like a gpo, on all my domain ?
Question 3 : the error message told something about a PM
Policy. where can i
find it ?

Thanks for your help,
Best Regard

Vincent
PS : english is not my mother tongue so please be clever...

Hi,

You could try this
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_pm_ez_gpo

Power options are a pain when you are using Machines like IBM’s. IBM’s
set their settings via user which is a real pain. The standard Windows
XP setup is to set Power Options via computer.

Cheers,

Lara