Re: Power Management

From: Nick Falcone (nfalcone@cityofshawnee.org)
Date: 01/30/03 

From: "Nick Falcone" <nfalcone@cityofshawnee.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:55:41 -0800

Applying the group policies nessecary for the screen
saver and screen lock are not a problem. I need a way to
globally change the power options.

-Nick

>-----Original Message-----
>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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