Managing Desktop Power Settings

There are many components that can be stored in a power configuration policy. In this section, let's examine how you can retrieve the power policy for a computer. The power plan settings are shown in Figure 9-7.

In the ReportPowerConfig.ps1 script, you'll report on the existing power configuration settings. The script supports several different switches, and can supply the following information:

  • All power configuration settings

  • Current power configuration setting

  • Available sleep states

  • Last wake event

  • All devices on the current computer

  • All devices, and their configuration (including if they support sleep)

  • All devices that are currently configured to wake the computer

  • All devices that can be user-configured to wake the computer ...

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