Screensaver Settings - VMware UEM

[johandijkstra]

Hello everybody, maybe a strange thing, but... a customers uses VMware UEM to set the screensaver settings, only throught UEM... but it seems not to work... is this possible to do through UEM (AMDX Based Setting), we use it on Windows 7

[DEMdev]

Hi johandijkstra,

I haven't tested it, but I found the following user policy settings that you should be able to configure through ADMX-based settings:

[johandijkstra]

That is exactly what we did....

[DEMdev]

Anything interesting in the FlexEngine log file?

Does it work if you configure these settings through a "normal" GPO?

[sjesse]

Make sure you have the setting for turning off the monitor longer then the screensaver settings, its in the power policy for the desktop/

[johandijkstra]

That's a good question, tbh didn't check that one.... will do...

Because of production environment (and lack of test) not able to "just" do a policy change...

Checked in the UEM log, added flexdebug.txt -> no issues about the policies...

[sjesse]

A good way around that I've found is create a "production pool" that points to a different share for uem. That lets you use the same hardware and have a UEM test space. We ended up getting test hardware in the end, its not great but its better then making changes and hoping they work :smileygrin:

[DEMdev]

Maybe you can test sjesse's suggestion with nircmd screensaver?

[cbaptiste]

I noticed in the past I have to do a contextual screen saver policy and that was failing. Disable the screen saver when user is internal but enabled when external. Turns out it wasn't working because the vmware optimization tool adds some policies for screen savers and UEM does not override existing policies.