I hope someone can help me as my client is seeing red because of this. They have recently installed a Windows 2008 Std server as a simple file server as a DC as they experienced speed issues with their p2p network they had before, also, they wanted to increase security etc... Their existing computers are Winxp Pro. When they purchased the server they also got 1 additional workstation with Win7 Pro. Now, I migrated all their data, connected every PC to the domain, created scripts etc, as I always did before with server 2000 and 2k3, and another instance of 2k8. The issue is this: When the W7 workstation is left for a period of time, the network connection is dropped, the files they had open and were obviously working on cannot be saved etc. So a lot of info would either be lost or they would have to save it to the local drive, restart the PC and copy the new file back to the network shares. Simple networking yes, nothing fancy. I have browsed many other forums, support channels etc., and they all said a similar thing. 1st: Disable 'Allow windows to turn off this device etc...'. So I do this, restart the machine and it's back, re-enabled. hmmm... 2nd:Disable the PNP functions for that particular NIC in the registry by changing the figure from 38(default) to 18 or 8(which apparently disables (greys out) the power saving feature... Restart the machine and it's back. hmmmm... My qusetion is this, is the power saving controlled by the 2008DC? I checked all policies and all power saving entries are set to 'not defined' which in my and others opinions, mean not enforced giving the administrator full permission to change as he/she pleases on the local PC. But after trying all this, the W7 PC keeps reverting back to the same. Nothing mentioned in the logs, eventvwr or anywhere. I need help. Anybody, would be much appreciated. Leon p.s. why would any sane person enable power saving on a server? Were the WS2k8 developers smoking something at the time? It's there and I can't understand it, on this server I have the same issue with the NIC, but as the XP users are not affected, I am looking to sort out the W7 machine first.

Hi, The power option on your client is controlled by Windows 2008 server. If you want to get more information about this, you can contact Windows Server forum. Windows Server Forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsserver Regarding the network connection dropped issue, I suggest updating the network adapter driver and performing a Clean Boot from the client side. However, if the issue persists, you may need to change settings from Server side. Please contact Server Forum above. Best Regards, NikiPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Cheers Niki for getting back to me. Unfortunately none of your suggestions worked. I have posted this in the Server forum as suggested so hopefully I can get some joy there. Thanks again for you help, hopefully I can get this sorted quick. Leon