XP Power Management Settings Domain

[bazola]

Hi

Scenario
A 2003 domain with approx 2000 Windows XP SP2 machines. I have been asked to setup a Policy to reduce carbon footprint. By default Windows XP doesnt allow management of power settings via GP so I have introduced a Windows 7 machine onto the domain and removed all GPMC's from all other servers. I am now trying to use the Windows 7 machine to utilise Group Policy preferences to control power management on the XP Machines.

I have installed the two patches required onto the client devices to allow gp processing
Group Policy Extensions & one other.

However I need the power management control to be per machine, as its in a hospital and people move around a lot.

I have tried loopback processing in merge mode set at top level on the domain against
Domain Users & the group of machines that need the policy. However it seems to be applying to all users.

Is there a way of being able to do this, as I am pulling my hair out here. Power Management settings dont seem to apply apart from per user basis!

Thanks
Baz

 

[bazola]

Thanks for the reply. The first URL doesnt seem to work however
I need the policy to apply per machine and not per user. It can be deployed via GP using a machine based startup script, but I dont think that will work from what I have read so far.

 

[bazola]

Are you using a 2008 / Vista / Windows 7 machine to manage policy on a 2003 domain?

If not I cant see the power management settings on a 2003 domain under computer policies only user policies as you stated regarding prompting for password.