Lenovo ThinkVantage (Power Manager Deployment)- Manuals

Preface This guide is intended for IT administrators, or those who are responsible for deploying the Power Managerprogram (hereafter refer to as Power Manager) to computers in their organization. The purpose of thisguide is to provide the information required for installing Power Manager on one or m...

Chapter 1. Overview Power Manager helps users adjust power settings to achieve the best balance between system performanceand power saving through slider control or power plans. Power Manager provides a variety of power-saving features through two essential modes, Basic andAdvanced. Basic mode is se...

(in poor condition). When the battery has encountered an error, an error message or balloon message willdisplay in the notification area. • Maximize battery life span If you primarily use the computer with an attached ac power adapter and only infrequently use batterypower, you can increase the life...

Chapter 2. Installation The following instructions provide installation procedures for Power Manager. Net Framework dependence Power Manager requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or later. You need to install the .NET Frameworkbefore installing Power Manager. You can download a compatible version of...

5. Make sure that you have selected the Install ThinkVantage Power Manager now option and click Finish . 6. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation and restart the computer. Note: Power Manager has two different versions. One is for Windows XP operating systems and the other i...

Chapter 3. Working with Active Directory and ADM or ADMXfiles Active Directory provides a mechanism that enables administrators to manage computers, groups, endusers, domains, security policies, and any type of user-defined objects. The mechanism is known as GroupPolicy and Administrative Template (...

Table 2. Power Plan (Scheme) Deployments (continued) Policy settings Description Critical battery alarm action (AC) Specifies the action that the Windows operating systemtakes when battery capacity reaches the critical batteryalarm level. Possible actions include: • Do nothing • Sleep • Hibernate • ...

Table 3. Global Power Setting (continued) Policy settings Description External monitor brightness Specifies the brightness level of the external monitor with100 brightness levels. If you enable this policy setting, you must select thedesired brightness level. The external monitor brightnessincreases...

Table 4. Battery Maintenance (continued) Policy settings Description Note: If you select this option, you must select Automatic mode enable to enable this policy setting. • Disabled This setting is supported only on Windows 7 clientcomputers. Power Agenda Deployments The Power Agenda Deployments pol...

Table 5. Power Agenda Deployments (continued) Policy settings Description Delete Specifies whether to allow users to edit a power agendaon the Power Agendas tab on client computers. If you enable this policy setting, users can edit a poweragenda on client computers. Specifies whether to allow users ...

Table 6. Power Agenda* (continued) Policy settings Description Days of week Specifies the days of a week that the power agenda runsweekly. If you enable this policy setting, you should select thedays of a week. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, butset the Frequency policy setti...

Under Computer Configuration , click Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Power Manager for Vista/7 ➙ EnergyWise Configuration Deployments . The following table provides the detailed information about each policy setting. Table 7. EnergyWise Configuration Deployments Policy se...

Chapter 4. Deploying the power plan with the power plandeployment function The power plan deployment function enables the IT administrator to deploy the power plan by using the ImportPowerPlan command line and the ControlPowerPlan command line instead of ADM or ADMX files. Note: The power plan deplo...

Sample script This section provides a sample script showing how to use the ImportPowerPlan command line and the ControlPowerPlan command line in the logon script. P P PowerPlanDeployment.bat owerPlanDeployment.bat owerPlanDeployment.bat @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL IF .%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%.==.x86. ( SET P...

IF .%%2.==.Error. SET CTLERROR=TRUE ) IF .%CTLERROR%.==.TRUE. goto ERROR_CTL goto DELEND :ERROR_IMP goto END :ERRPR_CTL goto END :DELEND DEL /F %ResultFile% :END ENDLOCAL Sample power plan deployment This section provides instructions on how to deploy the power plan step by step. To deploy the power...

m. Right-click PwrGPO and select Edit . The Group Policy Management Editor window opens. n. Under User Configuration , click Policies ➙ Windows Settings ➙ Select Scripts (Logon/Logoff) . Then, double-click Logon . The Logon Properties window opens. o. Click Show Files on the Scripts tab. The Logon w...

Appendix A. Deploying power schemes for non-administratorgroups or users on Windows XP client computers Non-administrator groups or users on Windows XP client computers have no permission to change thepower scheme settings. By design, this is a feature of the Windows XP operating system. To deploy P...

• MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg • USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg Notes: 1. Non-administrator groups or users on Windows XP client computers must have the write permission for the following registry subkeys: • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\W...

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