This short blog will be about some new long-awaited Intune Power Settings. I guess everyone knows this problem.
How to make sure your hard disk is not going to take a nap after some idle time?
I am going to divide this blog into 2 parts.
1. Using PowerShell
Until now, you hadn’t many options at your disposal. We only had 2 options
The first Option:
The first option you had was configuring these settings by using a PowerShell script (or convert the script to an exe and a win32app)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 0
powercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 0
powercfg.exe -x -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -x -standby-timeout-dc 0
powercfg.exe -x -hibernate-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -x -hibernate-timeout-dc 0
powercfg.exe -x -monitor-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -x -monitor-timeout-dc 0
powercfg.exe -x -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg.exe -x -disk-timeout-dc 0
The second Option
Creating a Intunewinapp with these 2 files in it (or maybe add an uninstall script)
Content of the REG
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings]
"ActivePowerScheme"="8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\3c0bc021-c8a8-4e07-a973-6b14cbcb2b7e]
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\5CA83367-6E45-459F-A27B-476B1D01C936]
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\6738E2C4-E8A5-4A42-B16A-E040E769756E]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\7648EFA3-DD9C-4E3E-B566-50F929386280]
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000003
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\96996BC0-AD50-47EC-923B-6F41874DD9EB]
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000001
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\A7066653-8D6C-40A8-910E-A1F54B84C7E5]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000002
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000002
and the content of the PowerShell script
Start-Process -filepath "C:\windows\regedit.exe" -argumentlist "/s .\ADMX_POLICIES.reg"
gpupdate /force
New-Item -Path "c:\" -Name "temp" -ItemType "directory" -force
$path = "c:\temp"
New-Item -path $path -name "power.txt" -ItemType file -force2. Using the Settings Catalog
Have you taken a look at the latest Settings Catalog?
That looks great, it really does. The only requirement, for now, you will need to have the Windows insiders build. So deploying this right now… will not have the effect you would hope for. We need to have some patience before we can use it in production.
UPDATE 05-09-2021…. GO out and make use of these settings! as they are no longer insider preview targeted
Before I will show you the results, let’s take a look at the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\ADMX_Power
If you want to read all about this CSP, here is the link to the official Microsoft doc
Policy CSP – ADMX_Power – Windows Client Management | Microsoft Docs
Now we have seen, we can configure this setting with the setting catalog let us take a look at the results:
The hard disk power scheme settings:
And the power scheme itself: High performance, just how I like it..
Conclusion:
I can’t wait until we can use these power settings in production. Using the Settings Catalog is way better than a Powershell script of course but sometimes a PowerShell could still work better?
Great post, sir.
I was working on the Settings Catalog now out of preview, but still having some issues with setting Sleep mode on AC or Plugged-in doesn’t seem to work.
Any idea on this?
Best regards,
Bram
Hi, we are also using this settings, but we configured it to zero.. That’s working. Did you make sure the device has the latest update installed KB5005101? as it is a prereq for settings to function…
So I am testing this, and for some reasons whether its related to the article (Apologies in advance if not)
the Battery slider for mobile laptop devices always sits on the Battery saver mode even if its configured to do Performance mode, is there something else i am missing that may be other settings related?
Could you share the settings you configured so I could take a look at it ?
We are using 3 settings from the catalog
– Closing lid action
– Sleep timeout on battery
– Sleep timeout on AC
All 3 settings works but for some reason the sleep timeout is not greyed out on the user side and still showing 10 minutes. It actually never goes to sleep but I would like that setting to reflect reality on the user machine. Any ideas?
I have enabled it in my test tenant, lets see what happens… with the powershell options it was greyed out..
It’s seems to be available in the built-in administrative templates so I’m trying with that .. All with a timer of 0.
Specify the system sleep timeout (plugged in)
Specify the system hibernate timeout (on battery)
Specify the system sleep timeout (on battery)
Specify the system hibernate timeout (plugged in)
Hey Rudy,
We are currently deploying battery options using the settings catalog.
Some users prefer other setting than what we normally give them, so i want them to be able to change it themselves, but I also want the basis to be there so ‘normal’ users dont have to worry about it.
Currently the options to change the settings are greyed out on the laptop itself. Do you know how i can make it so the user can change their settings, while the laptop gets deployed with predetermined settings?
Thanks in advance.