Wake On LAN
The Wake On LAN (WOL) functionality provides a method to wake up client systems for deployments. This ultimately improves the success of different types of deployments while still allowing systems to hibernate to save power. The Wake On LAN is a site-specific option; once it is enabled, the advertisement for mandatory software, software updates, and OS deployment task sequences can be configured to leverage WOL functionality to start systems or resume systems from hibernation prior to deployment.
Configuration Manager can use a unicast transmission or a subnet-directed broadcast to send the wake-up packet. A unicast transition targets the system’s IP address while a subnet-directed broadcast simply performs a broadcast on the subnet ...
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