Enable Remote Desktop Power Plan and BIOS Features

Owned by Micah Hibdon
Last updated: Sept 26, 2023 by Sebastian Saladiak
2 min read

This is a new configuration that we’ve added to respond to the increased need for certain machines to be highly-available and accessible from the network via remote desktop. By adding a machine to this configuration group, you will be enabling the following:

  • A Windows power plan that allows the machine to function at peak performance levels and prevents it from going to sleep.

  • A scheduled BIOS power-on time each weekday around 6:30 AM for select desktop models (laptops not supported)

  • Enabling “wake on LAN” feature both in the BIOS and in Windows for select desktop models (laptops not supported)

Supported Models for the latter two settings:

HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF
HP ProDesk 600 G2 DM
HP ProDesk 600 G2 MT
HP ProDesk 600 G2 SFF
HP ProDesk 600 G3 DM
HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT
HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF
HP ProDesk 600 G4 DM
HP ProDesk 600 G4 MT
HP ProDesk 600 G4 SFF
HP ProDesk 600 G5 SFF
HP ProDesk 600 G5 Desktop Mini
HP EliteDesk 600
HP EliteDesk 600 G2 SFF
HP EliteDesk 800 G1 USDT
HP EliteDesk 800 G2 DM 35W
HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 DM 35W
HP Z240 SFF Workstation
HP Z440 Workstation
HP Z4 G4 Workstation
HP Z600 Workstation
HP Z640 Workstation

Instructions

In Otto

  1. Open Otto and look up a machine by name or serial number

  2. Click “Configuration Selections”

  3. Locate “Enable Remote Desktop Power Plan - Always On”, select “Required”, and click “Update”

  4. On the specified machine, perform a restart while connected to a campus network or the Cisco AnyConnect Management Tunnel (Note that if you cannot get to the machine physically, MiWorkspace Windows Engineering may be able to restart it via Configuration Manager. Simply contact us in the #sup-mws-windows channel in Slack with the computer name.)

  5. This machine should now have the power plan and should get the other two features as pushes shortly.