GPO disable Hibernation/Standby?

[dhscott]

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable hibernation using group policy?
Also, is there a way to set the standby settings using group policy?
If it these can't be done with a GPO, is there another way to do this for all users on the network?
Thank you

Scott

 

[bcastner]

Q1: There is no Group Policy object to disable Hibernation
Q2: Unfortunately, there is no standby Group Policy setting either.
Q3: I suspect this could be done, but it is decidedly non-trivial. It is oddly much harder than you suspect. You will get a feel from reading this discussion:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20817453.html

Use the sysinternals tool regmon:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

Manually configure a workstation using the Control Panel, Power Options GUI interface.

Export using regedit the keys.

You can then use the ability to silently import a registry change from a file with regedit /s.

My guess is that it could be done, if all the workstations were essentially identical. If it is an odd mix of workstations, I would not attempt it personally.

 

[1101001100110101]

it would be easy to disable hybernation by just going to your power options and unslecting the hybernation box. as for shut down I do not know a good way to disable that.

 

[dhscott]

Thanks bcastner, sounds like more of a pain than it's worth. I was hoping for a simple GPO, but obviously MS is sleeping on the job again
Thanks anyway.