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- Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 1
Power Manager Deployment Guide Updated: March, 2012 - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 2
information and the product it supports, read the general information in Appendix B "Notices" on page 35. Seventh Edition (March 2012) © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2012. LIMITED AND RESTRICTED RIGHTS NOTICE: If data or software is delivered pursuant a General Services Administration "GSA" contract, use - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 3
policy settings 20 Cisco EnergyWise support for the Windows 7 operating system 28 Customizing the ADM file 30 Appendix A. Configurations for deploying Dynamic Power Management settings to Windows XP client computers 33 Appendix B. Notices 35 Trademarks 36 © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2012 i - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 4
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to computers in their organization. The purpose of this guide is to provide the information required for installing Power Manager on one or more computers, guide will provide instructions and solutions for working with Power Manager. If you have suggestions or comments, communicate with your Lenovo - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 6
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High energy savings, saves the energy while limiting the CPU speed and the brightness of the computer display. When users move the slider to the client computers, and inhibit the users'ability to switch among power plans, select a specific power plan, or create a power plan. For © Copyright Lenovo - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 8
. Users can select one or more created power agendas for use to meet their specific needs. Also, users can edit or delete one or more power agendas. Note: If users update the power agenda settings on client computers, the previous settings will be permanently overwritten. 2 Power ManagerDeployment - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 9
video driver (Intel®/AMD®/NVIDIA) is strongly recommended to support the brightness control functions. Note: To use the monitor configuration functions of Power Manager for desktop computers, the monitor needs to support the Display Data Channel/Command Interface (DDC/CI). © Copyright Lenovo 2008 - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 10
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the Lenovo Support Web site at: http://www.lenovo.com/support/site. Computer Configuration, expend Classic Administrative Templates and navigate to Administrative Templates. A new item named Lenovo ThinkVantage Components is present. b. Expand Lenovo ThinkVantage Components, a sub-item named Desktop - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 12
Vista and Windows 7 client computers Under Computer Configuration, click Classic Administrative Templates ➙ Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Desktop Power Manager for Vista and a power plan using the Power Options tool in Control Panel. 6 Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 13
settings in DC mode do not take effect on desktop computers. To configure Power Plan (Scheme) Deployments policies, do the following: • For Windows XP client computers Under Computer Configuration, click Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Power Manager ➙ Power Plan (Scheme - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 14
Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Desktop Power Manager for Vista and Windows7 ➙ Power Plan (Scheme) Deployments. This table provides detailed information about each policy. In this table, (AC) means the policy setting for client computers computers Maximum CPU Speed ( CPU. CPU Deeper Sleep (AC) CPU - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 15
AC) Automatic optical drive power off (DC) Monitor off Timer (AC) Monitor off Timer (DC) Description Specifies whether to Specifies the period of inactivity before the Windows operating system turns off the computer display. For Windows XP operating systems, possible time periods include: • 1 - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 16
drive. For Windows XP operating systems, possible time periods include: • 3 minutes • 5 minutes • 10 minutes • 15 minutes • 20 minutes • 25 minutes • 30 minutes 10 Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 17
Table 2. Power Plan (Scheme) Deployments (continued) Policy settings Standby Timer (AC) Standby Timer (DC) Description • 45 minutes • 1 hour • 2 hours • 3 hours • 4 hours • 5 hours For Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, you can specify the value in seconds. Specifies the period of - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 18
longer than the period of inactivity specified in the Standby Timer setting on Windows XP client computers. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, you can specify the value in seconds minutes • 3 minutes • 5 minutes • 10 minutes • 15 minutes • 20 minutes 12 Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 19
and select On, a file called hiberfile.sys is generated to store the contents of RAM (Random Access Memory) when the system enters sleep (standby) mode. This setting is not supported on Windows XP client computers. Enables Hybrid Sleep. If you enable this policy setting and select On, a file called - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 20
action that the Windows operating system allows when media files can be played. Possible actions include: • Allow the computer to sleep • Prevent idling to sleep • Allow the computer to enter away mode This setting is not supported on Windows XP client computers. 14 Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 21
adjust the setting based on what users do with their keyboard or mouse to keep the computer display on. This setting is not supported on Windows XP client computers. Specifies the search speed and performance of indexing. Possible values include: • Power Saver • Balanced • High Performance - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 22
computer can suspend an individual port. This setting is not supported on Windows XP client computers computer. Possible actions include: • Do nothing • Sleep • Hibernate • Shut down This setting is not supported on Windows XP client computers only supported on Windows Vista client computers. - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 23
computers Under Computer Configuration, click Classic Administrative Templates ➙ Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Desktop when the system resumes from sleep. Enable Hibernation This setting is supported only for the administrator account. For Windows Vista and Windows - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 24
computer display when the computer is in the following situations: • When you turn on or shut down the computer the brightness of the computer display will automatically computer display when the computer Monitor off Timer values will automatically decrease when the computer client computers" on - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 25
Global Power Setting (continued) Policy settings Power Management CPU Power Management PCI bus Power button Start menu • Sleep • Hibernate • Shut down This setting is only supported on Windows Vista client computers. Power Agenda This section provides you with the information about configuring - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 26
➙ Power Manager ➙ Power Agenda Deployments. • For Windows Vista and Windows 7 client computers Under User Configuration, click Classic Administrative Templates ➙ Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Desktop Power Manager for Vista and Windows7 ➙ Power Agenda Deployments. The - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 27
To allow users of client computers to edit a power agenda, you should also enable the Configurable policy setting for this power agenda. See the Configurable policy setting in Table 5 "User Configuration ® Administrative Template ® Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop Power Manager for Vista and - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 28
add power agenda exceptions to the power agenda exception lists on client computers. Type only one application name in each text box. If you you need to add more than 10 power agenda exceptions, you can manually modify the Administrative Template file named PWMGPO.ADM by doing the following: Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 29
on client computers, you can configure the power agenda settings described in the following table. Each time you deploy a power agenda, you can specify a maximum of 10 power agendas by default. Table 5. User Configuration ® Administrative Template ® Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop Power - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 30
Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop computers. Possible values include: • Not configured • Enabled • Disabled If you enable this policy setting, you can input a specific on client computers will be power plan • Set monitor brightness Note: This computers. Specify whether to turn the computer - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 31
, but set the Action policy setting to Set monitor brightness, users cannot use this power agenda on client computers. See the Action policy setting in Table 5 "User Configuration ® Administrative Template ® Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop Power Manager for Chapter 3. Working with Active - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 32
® Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop Power the computer display gets brighter. This policy setting does not support monitors with use this power agenda on client computers. Start Time End Time Note: agendas like Set Monitor Brightness or Switch to a Power Plan on client computers. • Users - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 33
policy setting to Weekly, users cannot use this power agenda on client computers. See the Frequency policy setting in Table 5 "User Configuration ® Administrative Template ® Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ® Desktop Power Manager for Vista and Windows7 (Power Manager) ® Power Agenda Deployments - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 34
Computer Configuration, click Classic Administrative Templates ➙ Administrative Templates ➙ Lenovo ThinkVantage Components ➙ Desktop is disabled on all client computers. Port No This setting is not supported on Windows Vista client computers. Specifies the port number Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 35
of EnergyWise. Configurable options include: • Not configured • Enabled • Disabled If you enable this policy setting, you must input the role of the client computer. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the role will be restored to the default value. Note: The machine type and - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 36
must input the device type of the client computer. Importance Note: The default device type is PC. Specifies the importance of EnergyWise . Configurable technical support. Customizing the ADM file To deploy more than 10 power agendas to client computers at one time, you can manually modify Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 37
Agenda12" ...... 2) Under KeyPath_PowerAgenda10 ="Software\Policies\Lenovo\DPWRMGR\PowerAgenda\PowerAgenda10" add KeyPath_PowerAgenda11 ="Software\Policies\Lenovo\DPWRMGR\PowerAgenda\PowerAgenda11" KeyPath_PowerAgenda12 ="Software\Policies\Lenovo\DPWRMGR\PowerAgenda\PowerAgenda12 For Windows Vista - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 38
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server, click Start ➙ Run, and type dsa.msc in the Open box. The Active Directory Users and Computers window opens. 2. Right-click on a domain container and select Properties. The Properties window opens. 3. Click permissions to all subkeys option, and click OK. © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2012 33 - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 40
Non-administrator groups or users on Windows XP client computers must have the write permission for the following registry subkeys : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/915160 After completing the configuration, the non-administrator group or user in the Windows XP client computers can have - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 41
the operation of any other product, program, or service. Lenovo may have patents or pending patent applications covering support applications where malfunction may result in injury or death to persons. The information contained in this document does not affect or change Lenovo product specifications - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 42
Trademarks The following terms are trademarks of Lenovo in the United States, other countries, or both: Lenovo ThinkVantage AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro group of companies. Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. 36 Power ManagerDeployment Guide - Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e | (English) Power Manager Deployment Guide - Page 43
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Power Manager
Deployment Guide
Updated: March,
2012