Re: Power Management

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/30/03 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:32:46 -0500

AFAIK screen saver lock settings should not be in the same section as power
management, so it should be completely possible to do this in group policy
[as long as all computers are Windows 2000 or XP].

Another alternative would be importing a reg file onto all computers using,
say, the login script, or a script that remotely attaches and changes the
registry via command line tool from the Windows resource kit from Microsoft.
This method should work on other versions of windows as well.

Two problems are that these settings are per user and not per computer, and
that a screen saver must be selected for this setting to work. This means
that the policy must continue to run everytime a new user logs into a
different workstation, and would mean either overwriting the user's existing
choice of screen saver every time the setting is applied, or using a custom
script to try to parse the registry value to determine whether a screen
saver is selected and turned on.

Searching google will give you more information on this immediately:

http://groups.google.com/groupsselm=%23FjqvPo5BHA.2072%40tkmsftngp02

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lock+group-policy+workstation+screen-saver
+group%3Amicrosoft.public.*

"Nick Falcone" <nfalcone@cityofshawnee.org> wrote in message
news:015b01c2c881$da309ab0$d2f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA09...
> My company recently migrated our old network to a Windows
> 2k domain running Active Directory. One of our goals is
> to have a screen saver screen lock after 15 min of
> inactivity for security reaons. However, we do not want
> any devices powering down as a result of Power Management
> (in other words, all devices set to Never in power
> options). The domain consists of 250+ machines, and I am
> wanting to apply those desired settings across the whole
> domain without physically touching each and every
> machine. I was unable to find a group policy to control
> power management. How can I control this over the
> network? Thanks.
>
> -Nick Falcone
> 

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