Power-on policy

[hooshoo]

Is there a way, in a Manual Pool with persistent desktops, to set power policy settings where once a User logs off that their desktop powers off (the Power Off policy will do this, I know) BUT, when that User logs back in again, their now powered off desktop will power on?

I know, it sounds like a weird thing to want, but the powers above me are asking for a way to do that. The reason is we have mulitple shifts in our call center and they dont want unused desktops to remain powered on for 8 + hours when they are not being used. The reasoning behind that is those desktops will just be using resources that the active desktops should have.

[childebrandt]

I think you may have an issue with this. First i don't think you can do this but not 100% sure.

Second that power on procedure takes 2 to 3 mins to complete. So your user would have to wait for the vm to boot. This might cause a riot with your users.

I know you can create a powershell script to power them up at a certain time. This may be more useful to power them on an hour for they are set to log in.