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Understanding Surface Power Management with Modern Standby in Windows 10
Description
Surface is in a class of devices that uses Modern Standby rather than traditional S3 Sleep. This allows us to manage power consumption right down to the individual hardware components. The net effect is near instant resume times and more efficient power consumption. In today's demo bench with Program Manager Joao Botto, we walk through the two Modern Standby modes and how to switch between them:
• Connected Standby, also known as InstantGo, for always-on computing
• And Disconnected Standby for longer battery life
Continue watching, check out these other Microsoft Mechanics shows on Surface
- Tour of the New Microsoft Surface Dock
- Simplifying Surface imaging with the Surface Deployment Accelerator
- An Engineer Guided Tour of Surface Pro 4
- Troubleshooting Surface power management during modern standby
- Migrating your Surface to Windows 10, with Windows in-place upgrade
- How to manage and update your drivers and firmware for Surface
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The Discussion
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tech4him Thanks Zachary. Interestingly my team has had problems with Surfaces both 3 and 4's with power management. I noticed on my Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 enterprise having been re-imaged by the Desktop team, I do not see any of the options you showed for Disconnected Standby. I only have options for battery and plugged in Screen options and then the "related settings". Nothing for Sleep or Wifi. Is this a GPO related issue, permission problem or something else?
Thanks
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Jeremy_Chapman Usually this would be GPO-related. If some of the UX has been disabled vs. what Joao demo'd, then that is Group Policy at work. The best source of truth is running the powercfg commands to see what is configured for power settings. It's very likely that a one-size-fits-all laptop power plan has been enforced on all laptops.
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HolisticDev I would love to find a way to be able to do an RDP session or a WoL packet to a Surface Pro 3 while in connected standby. The scenario here is to wake up the computer for remote management/support after business hours. Any solutions?
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Paul Review These are very old comments. Can you tell us what has changes in 2 years. I thought Modern Standby would help with extending my battery life, but I read many people are experience just the opposite. So what is the current status, can I use Modern Standby to do Windows Update at night when the system is in sleep mode and also have battery left for work in the morning ?