Desktop Best Practices

CSCI @ U-M IT Professionals Best Practices Poster
Download IT Professionals Best Practices Poster (8.5" x 11" – PDF)

1. Get buy-in

  • Find out how much energy your systems are really using and share it
    • Test with a Kill-A-Watt Power Meter
    • Make the meter available to loan to your users
  • Set practical energy-saving settings for the typical cases
  • Establish good processes to manage the inevitable exceptions
  • Focus on energy and natural resource savings rather than costs
  • Make green computing practices the norm

2. Promote energy-saving Behavior

  • Share energy-saving information and available CSCI @ U-M materials with your users
  • Integrate CSCI @ U-M educational material into the training
  • Encourage users to visit climatesavers.umich.edu

3. Buy smart

    The typical laptop uses less power than the typical desktop

  • Buy Energy-Star 5.0 and EPEAT-rated equipment
  • Choose more modest specifications for systems that don't require the fastest processor
  • Promote laptop purchases
  • Replace CRT monitors with LCDs

4. Provide “smart” power strips

  • Make power strips accessible and encourage users to turn them off
  • Choose “smart” power strips that have combination outlets (manually switched and always-on), motion sensors, and other advanced features

5. Configure default energy-savers

  • Set sleep settings:
    • Monitor/display sleep: Turn off after 15 minutes or less
    • Turn off hard drives/hard disk sleep: 15 minutes or less
    • System standby/sleep: After 30 minutes or less
  • Allow exceptions for users that need them
  • Deploy power management tools and Wake-on-Lan Services
  • Learn more from the Workstation Best Practice Implementations white paper

6. Re-evaluate the printing environment

  • Consolidate to fewer, shared, printers
  • Set double-sided printing as the default to save paper
  • Consider charging; “free” printing invites waste

7. Reuse and responsibly recycle computer equipment

 

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