Chapter 9. Desktop Power Management
This section describes some technologies and techniques for reducing the power used by desktops. Please bear in mind throughout, though, that a PC that has been turned off still consumes some energy: it needs to be unplugged to not use power.
Wake-on-LAN software
In 2007, and unrelated to our green work, one of our teams was evaluating products for patch management as an addon to the Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) software which we use to manage our desktop PC estate.
Two products, SMSWakeup and NightWatchman, make up the patch management solution from a company called 1E.[12] The products function independently of each other. While our initial focus was providing an effective out-of-hours patching and ...
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