Prevent Standby and Hibernation using GPO

[roland]

Hi, I am keen to prevent Hibernation and Standby using GPO, can someone kindly advise me how we do this from inside Active Directory.

[apeo]

Have a look in the wiki for Energy Star EZ GPO.

 

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[apeo]

Download EZ-GPO from here.

 

Lol aint that what i just said... ;-)

[tosca925]

Below is what we use, the instructions below are to do an individual laptop or pc but we put the exact same settings into a GPO and they work fine for us.

 

 

Locate and click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFol

der\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy

 

 

On the Security menu, click Permissions. Either add the users separately,

or add the users' group and give all the users full control over this

key.

 

 

Locate and click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFol

der\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

 

 

On the Security menu, click Permissions.

Either add the users separately, or add the user s' group and give all

the users full control over this key.

 

 

In addition, users need to be given the right to shut down the system.

To accomplish this, follow these steps:

 

 

a. In Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then

double-click "Local Security Policy".

 

 

b. In the left pane, expand Local Policies and click User Rights

Assignment.

 

 

c. In the right pane, double-click "Shut down the system", and add each

user individually or add the Users group to this local security policy.

Making these changes will allow normal users to alter power scheme settings

without being added to the Local Administrators group.