Wake-on-LAN enable? Script, GPO, reg etc.

[Garacesh]

So it turns out that to throw a spanner in the works, Windows 10 has its own WOL settings that - even though it's enabled in BIOS - stop the computer booting when told to over the network.

 

I can't see anything in Computer Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates, System, Power Management though, which is where most of the sleep/shutdown/etc related settings seem to be.

 

Is there perhaps a policy lurking somewhere else I could use? Or a startup script that would enable WOL? Heck, I'd even take a Registry edit at this point.

 

Or is this going to be one of those annoying things where it's wildly different across machines because of drivers, and we have to do manually?

[angrycomputingteacher]

Are you trying to make the computers switch on at a certain time everyday? Is that your goal?

[Garacesh]

No. I'm trying to have WOL enabled in Windows (Device Manager, right click the NIC, Properties, Power Management, Allow this device to wake the computer) because despite the fact that WOL is enabled in BIOS, if it isn't enabled in Windows too, then it won't work. We have classroom management software that can switch on machines, only now we've upgraded to 10, that isn't working because the default settings have that option turned off.

[Blue_Cookeh]

You're probably going to have to script this as part of your deployment process:

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617165(v=ws.10).aspx

 

How to enable Wake on LAN on Network Interface Cards using SCCM 2012 Compliance, by Ben Fisher | myITforum.com

 

etc

[Oaktech]

Also, a lot of machines will only WOL with the full manufacturers version of the NIC driver installed, that is certainly the case with our Lenovos. Unless you install the full Intel driver package it doesn't work.

[Garacesh]

I can't help but notice here that if you don't have "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" checked, "Allow this device to wake the computer" is greyed out. Surely that's counter-productive? You want the device to not be turned off so that you can use WOL... Can anybody confirm that if you tick Allow the computer..., then Allow this device... and then untick Allow the computer.. again (Leaving Allow this device.. greyed out, but ticked), does WOL work?