Modifying the power options

For a couple of examples and screenshots already in this chapter, I have been talking about this new fancy-pants power plan that I am putting together, without telling you how to find that power plan in the first place. Let's configure our own Power settings by using Group Policy preferences, which we can then roll out to all of the workstations in our organization.

Create a new GPO for your purposes, and link/filter it accordingly. At this point I will assume that you are familiar with that part of the process. Once the GPO is ready to go, right-click on it and Edit... that GPO in order to navigate to the following location:

Computer Configuration | Preferences | Control Panel Settings | Power Options

Here, you ...

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