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Importing and activating power settings without Group Policy
Hi,
I have a problem which is giving me a headache. Hopefully someone out there knows a way round.
Basically we are looking to roll out Win 7 64 bit in my company and are currently working on some test models. (At present we use all XP and Server 2003)
I am building a few test machines and want to find a way to standarize the power settings without having the power settings GPO as (as far as I can tell) that is only available on Server 2008.
So far I have created a new settings scheme called powertest.pow and exported it to a central network location.
I can then have other machines import it easily anough by script.
Then I get stuck. I can only find a way to activate .pow by GUID rather than friendly name and each time the powertest.pow is imported on a new PC it generates a new and unique GUID.
If I could activate the .pow by friendly name this would be easy, but this doesn't seem to be possible (?). So - what next? Do I need to somehow query the registry, extract the GUID, and then use that to activate my scheme? If so, how? And is it scriptable?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice that might be out there.
Neil.