wsus and wol

topher · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:30

I have deployed wsus and I would like to use wol to turn the client PC's on. I have looked at using gpo to schedule wake on lan, but I cannot see a policy that does this!

topher

m4cc45 · 29 Oct 2008 at 12:46

We use a small wol.exe and scheduled tasks. You also need to change the BIOS to allow WOL. Simply wol <mac_address_here>

Not sure if this helps at all but it's an easy solution.

M.

Curiosityx · 29 Oct 2008 at 21:13

Never tried using said setting before so i would advise testing first, this is Windows 2003 R2 SP2.

Regards

topher · 29 Oct 2008 at 22:25

tried that on xp clients, but it didn't work... will try it on vista tomorrow.

cheers

Major_Disaster · 30 Oct 2008 at 00:00

"Requirements:
At least Microsoft Windows Vista"