Power Options GPO

[LawnBoy]

Anybody know of a template for setting workstation Power Options? I can't seem to find one anywhere... Workstations are XPpro sp2.

Thanks.


"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[ADB100]

Google produced this....

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_pm_ez_gpo

Looks pretty good..

Andy

 

[LawnBoy]

Yeah, found that but it requires an agent running on the workstation, which I hesitate to do.

Is there anything else available?

"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[porkchopexpress]

No if you read the link it explains why GPO can't be used to set power options on XP stations that is why energy star produced the app. There are probably third party tools and maybe SMS can do it but they will cost, or you can move to Vista but again that's quite a cost

We're just about to start trialling the energy star product as it's supposed to be quite effective.

 

[LawnBoy]

Do you know the name of any of these 3rd party tools?


"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[porkchopexpress]

Yep EZGPO in the link above, there is no way to manage these features without an installed agent MS don't provide an API for it as far as i know.

 

[LawnBoy]

There are probably third party tools and maybe SMS can do it

I was just wondering if you knew of another product, no need to get testy.

"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[porkchopexpress]

I'm not being testy i'm just pointing out that the other third party tools will need an agent which you specifically said you didn't want.

 

[porkchopexpress]

It might be worth trying ExGPO on a few test PC's it seems to work very well and the agent has a tiny footprint.