Power plan settings GPO not applying

[manamaga2512]

Hi all, I've created a GPO with the settings detailed in the screenshot below. I've applied the GPO to the respective OU, done a gpupdate but the machines don't seem to be pulling down the policy, and thus are going to sleep all the time. I've tried it at computer level and user level. Server 2008R2 / W7. How do you all control the power settings? I'm considering a third party option for this, and hopefully it might help with the powering on and off, of the machines too.

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by manamaga2512

[QwertyMash]

Are other group policies applying fine?

[DJ-1701]

That's because it's a GPP - Group Policy Preference. It doesn't always apply as the active power policy, even if you tell it. Have a look at Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Power Management

[LeMarchand]

Our power settings are set in Computer>Policies>Admin Templates>System>Power Management and work from there (as far as I can tell!).

 

Have you tried running gpresult on one of the machines to see if it's being applied and not working or just not being applied?

[LeMarchand]

No fair! Beaten to it by a Time Lord. Some of us can't just nip back in time!

[manamaga2512]

Thanks all. @QuertyMash - Yes, all fine apart from this one. @LeMarchand - I've tried rsop.msc and checked out the policies there but it's not showing. Think I'll try the alternative path as you suggest and feedback tomorrow. I'm not doing overtime for nobody

[manamaga2512]

Computer>Policies>Admin Templates>System>Power Management - Worked perfect, thanks!!

 

[manamaga2512]

Next question. Power management; Scheduled task via GPO or third party software? Just wanted to shut our PC's down in the evening, and have them fire back up in the morning.

 

Ta very much :-)

[DJ-1701]

Next question. Power management; Scheduled task via GPO or third party software? Just wanted to shut our PC's down in the evening, and have them fire back up in the morning.

 

Ta very much :-)

 

In the past, I have just created a batch file on the server with an entry for each machine with the command:

 

shutdown /f /t 1 /m \\ComputerNameHere

 

Then just scheduled the task to run from the server.

[LeMarchand]

Next question. Power management; Scheduled task via GPO or third party software? Just wanted to shut our PC's down in the evening, and have them fire back up in the morning.

 

Ta very much :-)

 

I use PSTools' Shutdown to shutdown machines and WakeMeOnLan to wake 'em up (both free). I found the former only works on some machines if they are "awake" and so use the latter to ensure this. WMoL obviously only works with wired clients. Never had much luck with doing it via scheduled tasks.