WOL Windows 10 Clients without MAC Address

[talksr]

Hi there,

 

Does anyone have a good way to be able to wake on lan Windows 10 client computers without having to supply the device mac address?

Life is so easy on RM CC4, you can just go on to the RMMC console and shutdown, restart or wake computers.

For my vanilla setups, I am starting to find it increasingly difficult to power things on when not physically on site.

 

I found a few Microsoft articles where you can use PowerShell, but you need both the device IP and mac address. This is fine, but quite a faff.

 

Has anyone found an easier way?

[Steve21]

Well any software that will do it really needs a MAC stored in it. (Disclaimer for the fussypots, ok you could use AMT blahblah but standard WOL ) I mean we just use a bat file that has all the MACs in it that are gathered when the machines are put on the network, but things like SCCM etc store them too by default. So you can do a random one without needing to find it.

 

Pretty sure Spiceworks inventry stores them too, and has the WOL addon if needed

 

Steve

Edited October 3, 2017 by Steve21

[mavhc]

https://specopssoft.com/product/specops-gpupdate/

[Fazza]

WOL sends a magic packet to a MAC address, without a MAC address WOL wont work.

[vizubeat]

Yeah everything is going to use the MAC address somewhere along the line. We dump a CSV (TSV?) of machines and MAC addresses from DHCP, stick that into a batch file, wakes up all the machines every morning.