Speed up your SCCM 2012 laptop builds

[Config Mangler]

Thought I would share this. We have managed to shave 20 minutes off an i5 laptop build and 60 minutes off an Atom tablet build by turning off power savings during the build. I just added a package / batch file with the following entries.

 

c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -monitor-timeout-dc 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -disk-timeout-dc 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-dc 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -hibernate-timeout-ac 0
c:\windows\system32\powercfg.exe -change -hibernate-timeout-dc 0

 

This also fixed terrible build problems with the Atom where builds could sometimes take three days to complete!

 

I was sure that SCCM disabled any power savings during a build but it looks like this is not the case.

 

We run another batch file at the end to revert the settings.