Using the Wake On LAN (WOL) feature with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) can make managing your environment a lot easier. A brief description of the WOL feature within a computers BIOS is that it enables an administrator of a network to securely wake a machine up from a powered off or sleep state. As long as the machine is correctly configured and has power and a wired data connection, SCCM can wake a machine up. For more details please visit this SITE and for some shortcuts to some good articles, please keep reading. So, here is a great link that describes how to enable WOL for use with SCCM on the Client Side.
Here is the Administrator Checklist for enabeling WOL in SCCM on the server side:
Using the, The Dell Client Configuration Utility, will allow you to configure your Dell BIOS from within windows and it will create a silent EXE that you can deploy via GPO or in an SCCM package. |
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