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From: Joe#2 on 6 Jul 2010 16:51
On one of my servers, the power meter just showed up on the task bar.
Apparently the server thinks its running on batteries! Any idea on how it got
there?
From: Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] on 6 Jul 2010 18:01
Not sure what's going on but...

Can't remove "Battery" icon from taskbar on SBS 2003 servers
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_23501132.html

In case the solutions do not show at the bottom of the page, here they are:

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This sounds very strange. Have you tried removing the icon via command line?

powercfg /GLOBALPOWERFLAG off /option BATTERYICON


Jamsb:You can enable and disable the alarms too:
powercfg /batteryalarm low /activate off
powercfg /batteryalarm critical /activate off

Though it sounds like this might just hide the real problem. Might be worth
seeing why SBS thinks your machine is a laptop :)
Accepted
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Joe#2" <Joe2(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67D315A0-598D-4D13-9F9B-36D911B859F1(a)microsoft.com...
> On one of my servers, the power meter just showed up on the task bar.
> Apparently the server thinks its running on batteries! Any idea on how it
> got
> there?

From: Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] on 6 Jul 2010 18:03
Also... looks like it may be a UPS issue:

UPS battery support
http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/windows-server-sbs/78919/UPS-battery-support

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport(a)no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#WdUwaVHLHA.552(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Not sure what's going on but...
>
> Can't remove "Battery" icon from taskbar on SBS 2003 servers
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_23501132.html
>
> In case the solutions do not show at the bottom of the page, here they
> are:
>
> --------------------------------------------
> This sounds very strange. Have you tried removing the icon via command
> line?
>
> powercfg /GLOBALPOWERFLAG off /option BATTERYICON
>
>
> Jamsb:You can enable and disable the alarms too:
> powercfg /batteryalarm low /activate off
> powercfg /batteryalarm critical /activate off
>
> Though it sounds like this might just hide the real problem. Might be
> worth seeing why SBS thinks your machine is a laptop :)
> Accepted
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
> ============================
> "Joe#2" <Joe2(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67D315A0-598D-4D13-9F9B-36D911B859F1(a)microsoft.com...
>> On one of my servers, the power meter just showed up on the task bar.
>> Apparently the server thinks its running on batteries! Any idea on how it
>> got
>> there?
>
From: Joe#2 on 6 Jul 2010 21:32
Merv, thans for the suggestions. I'm willing to bet they just installed a
UPS. I'll email and find out.

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> Also... looks like it may be a UPS issue:
>
> UPS battery support
> http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/windows-server-sbs/78919/UPS-battery-support
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
> ============================
>
> "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport(a)no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#WdUwaVHLHA.552(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Not sure what's going on but...
> >
> > Can't remove "Battery" icon from taskbar on SBS 2003 servers
> > http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_23501132.html
> >
> > In case the solutions do not show at the bottom of the page, here they
> > are:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > This sounds very strange. Have you tried removing the icon via command
> > line?
> >
> > powercfg /GLOBALPOWERFLAG off /option BATTERYICON
> >
> >
> > Jamsb:You can enable and disable the alarms too:
> > powercfg /batteryalarm low /activate off
> > powercfg /batteryalarm critical /activate off
> >
> > Though it sounds like this might just hide the real problem. Might be
> > worth seeing why SBS thinks your machine is a laptop :)
> > Accepted
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > --
> > Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
> > ============================
> > "Joe#2" <Joe2(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:67D315A0-598D-4D13-9F9B-36D911B859F1(a)microsoft.com...
> >> On one of my servers, the power meter just showed up on the task bar.
> >> Apparently the server thinks its running on batteries! Any idea on how it
> >> got
> >> there?
> >
> .
>
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