How to prevent PCs from shutting down during core business hours?

With the Auto Shutdown Manager feature “Time Rules,” you can keep PCs powered on during specific hours.

If you are working on a single client PC, open the tab Time Rules.
If you are working on the Auto Shutdown Manager Server, open Management Console → Groups & Settings and select the PC group to modify.

In this example, the goal is to keep the PCs running Monday through Friday from 07:00 to 18:00 (06:00 pm).



Prevent automatic shutdown or power-saving mode during working hours:

  1. Open Time Rules.
  2. Click Add to create a new rule.
  3. In Timing mode, choose Day of Week and set Start time to 07:00.
  4. Select Monday to Friday, and leave Repeat every set to 1 (weekly).
  5. Set Action to Disable Auto Shutdown.
  6. Save the rule.

Time Rules



Allow shutdown or power-saving mode after working hours:

  1. Add another Time Rule.
  2. In Timing mode, choose Day of Week and set Start time to 18:00.
  3. Select Monday to Friday, and leave Repeat every at 1.
  4. Set Action to Enable Auto Shutdown.
  5. Save the rule.

With the Auto Shutdown Manager feature called "Time Rules", this is very easy. If you are on a single client PC, navigate to the tab "Time Rules" If you are on the Auto Shutdown Manager Server, open the Management Console -> Groups & Settings and select the PC group that you want to modify. In this example, we want to keep the PCs up and running from Monday - Friday between 07:00am and 6:00pm. Prevent Shutdowns or Saving Mode: 1) Open Time Rules 2) Add a new Time Rule 3) Set the appropriate timing for you scenario. In our case we select the Day-of-Week timing mode and set the start time to 07:00 am 4) Then we select the days Mon-Fri and keep the 1 in repeat every because we want to repeat this every week 5) We set the Action to "Disable Auto Shutdown" 6 We Save this Time Rule Allow Shutdowns or Saving Mode: 1) Add a new Time Rule 2) Again set the appropriate timing for you scenario. In our case we select the Day-of-Week timing mode and set the start time to 06:00 pm 3) Then we select the days Mon-Fri and keep the 1 in repeat every because we want to repeat this every week 4) We set the Action to "Enable Auto Shutdown" 5) Save this Time Rule



You should now have two rules:

The Two Time Rules

Click Accept Changes to save and deploy the settings to all clients in the group. When the dialog "Apply changes to other Policy Group?" appears, select any additional groups that should receive the new Time Rules.