How do you do it: Power Management

[DalekSec]

Hi All,

 

How do you deal with power management in the suites? before I've had a task scheduler set to restart at X time, turn off at X time and then a setting to turn it on in the morning. This was only on one suite, i'd rather not have to go around and change the bios setting on all our machines! I was wondering if there was any easier ways?

 

I've had a look in SCCM and all i can see to find is the power plan settings, nothing to do with shutting down and waking up.

 

Devices are co-managed between SCCM and Intune.

 

Thanks

 

Dalek

[LeMarchand]

Mine gets a scheduled "wake up" task at 1845 (I think I found updates wouldn't apply if they were "off") and another an hour later as the shutdown command 15 minutes after that didn't seem to apply if they'd nodded off. WakeMeOnLAN for the wakeup calls and PSTools shutdown for the shutdown.

[DrBeaker]

We're an RM school and use the console to schedule Wake-on-Lan (WoL) wake-up tasks. Only time I've ever seen it fail is when they're switched off at the mains sockets.

 

I've got it scheduled for admin, teacher and IT suite stations. Once another project is finished I'm going to tidy them up a bit. Ideally so we don't have IT suites powering up on days they're not needed. Only teaching and admin stations.

Edited June 4, 2020 by DrBeaker