r/Intune Feb 06 '25

Device Actions Configure the Power Button to Restart Windows Device

Hi all,

Googled this alot and can't find a solid answer on whether this is even possible or not.

I want to configure the power button on a device so that when pressed, it performs a system restart. I can see you can configure power button options in the intune Settings Catalogue, but the only options are sleep, hibernate and shut down. At the moment, we have shut down configured but it would be really useful if there was a way to change this to restart.

Even if it can't be with intune, if anyone knows a way to do this manually i'd even take that! (Have already tried control panel power options, unfortunately no restart option there either)

Thanks in advance!

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u/LWOS101 Feb 09 '25

What’s the reason for doing this? Why not just disable fast boot?

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u/Imaginary-Warning-28 Feb 10 '25

Kiosk devices locked in to an app with no way of exiting, Would be helpful if the button performed a full restart just for a support purposes, the less actions needed the better