Deploying Power Management to a Collection

A Collection can be configured for power settings such as how long the computer must be inactive before the display is turned off.

**Some things to remember about Power plans. **

You can only apply Configuration Manager Power Plans to Device Collections.
If a computer is a member of multiple power plans, the least restrictive value is used.
According to Microsoft, Configuration Manager power management is not supported on virtual machines. You cannot apply power plans to virtual machines, nor can you report power data from them.

I will supply a procedure for configuring Power Management, but unfortunately, we cannot test this in our Lab environment.

First, we will create a device collection • Then we will create a Custom Client Setting
Then deploy those settings to a collection.
From the Work-Space, click Assets and Compliance. From the Navigation Pane, **click Device Collections. **
Notice that under Device Collections, I have created three folders. One for desktops, laptops, and servers. These folders help keep my device collections organized.
If you want to create folders, right-click on Device Collections select folder, then Create folder. I would recommend that you do the same for your organization.

Right-click Power Management Laptops click create a Device Collection.
From the Create Device Collection Wizard, Name type Power Management Laptops , from Limiting Collection, click Browse , click ALL Systems , click ok , then click next.
From add rule, click a direct rule , click next** **
From Resource Class, select System Resources , from Attribute Name, select Name. From value, type the % sign, click **next. **
From Select Resources, click SAWS01-NEW , click next , click next again, then…