Keep computer awake during maintenence windows and/or software updates?

[Jordan]

Hi all. I've been playing to SCCM 2007 for about a month now, and towards the beginning of my explorations I could have sworn I saw/read something that indicated that SCCM would prevent a computer from transitioning to sleep during either software updates or maintenance windows. We have a fairly aggressive sleep policy here (30 minutes), so when Wake on Lan wakes up the computers for their updates, I'm afraid that they will go back to sleep before they've had a chance to fully update. Was the SCCM 2007 ability to keep a client computer awake a figment of my imagination? If not, is it documented anywhere? My searches for it have been fruitless.

 

Thanks!

[anyweb]

hi there Jordan and welcome

 

 

On wake-up, the Configuration Manager Client registers the system as busy for the specific wake-up task it receives, until the task is complete. This prevents the computer from going back into a sleep state based on its power management settings before the task can complete. Wake On LAN does not return computers to a sleep state but power management schemes can configure computers to shut down or hibernate after a period of inactivity. Windows Vista supports power management schemes through Group Policy.

 

via > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680929.aspx

 

cheers

niall

[Jordan]

Brilliant! Thank you so much from rescuing me from my apparent lack of search skill today :-)

 

Jordan