Surface devices are capable of Wake On LAN (WOL) from Modern Standby (also known as Connected Standby). With WOL, IT admins can remotely wake up devices and automatically perform management tasks with Microsoft Intune admin center or third party solutions.
Note
To support WOL, Surface devices must be plugged into AC power and use a Surface Ethernet adapter or docking device that is connected to a wired network.
Supported devices
Ethernet adapters with support for WOL:
Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock
Surface Dock 2
Surface Dock
Microsoft USB-C Travel Hub
Surface Ethernet adapter
Surface USB-C to Ethernet and USB 3.0 Adapter
Surface USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Surface Docking Station for Surface Pro 3
Docking Station for Surface 3
Docking Station for Surface Pro 3
Surface devices with support for WOL:
Surface 3
Surface Pro 3
Surface Pro 4
Surface Pro (fifth gen)
Surface Pro (fifth gen) with LTE Advanced
Surface Pro 6
Surface Pro 7
Surface Pro 7+
Surface Pro X
Surface Pro 8
Surface Pro 9
Surface Pro 9 with 5G
Surface Pro 10
Surface Pro 10 with 5G
Surface Pro 11th Edition, Qualcomm processor
Surface Book (all generations)
Surface Go (all generations)
Surface Laptop (all generations)
Surface Laptop Go (all generations)
Surface Laptop SE
Surface Laptop Studio (all generations)
Surface Studio 2 (see Surface Studio 2 instructions below)
Surface Studio 2+
Using WOL
When not in use, Surface devices enter an idle, low-powered state known as Modern Standby or Connected Standby. IT admins can remotely trigger devices using a wake request (magic packet) that contains the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the target Surface device. The destination network interface card (NIC) compares the MAC address with its own before waking up the device. If the MAC address in the magic packet wake request doesn't match the MAC address on the destination NIC, the NIC won’t wake up the device. To learn more, review Wake sources documentation.
Modern Standby
Modern Standby starts when the user causes the system to enter sleep, or the device goes to sleep based on the Windows power settings the user has set. For example, the user presses the power button, closes the lid, or selects Sleep from the power button in the Windows Start menu. WOL works by default for Surface devices in Modern Standby mode running Windows 10 version 1607 or later. No other IT configuration is required, except for Surface Studio 2.
Surface Studio 2 instructions
To enable WOL on Surface Studio 2, you must use the following procedure:
Open Registry Editor (Start > Search > regedit.exe) and create the following registry keys:
; Set CONNECTIVITYINSTANDBY to 1:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\F15576E8-98B7-4186-B944-EAFA664402D9]
"Attributes"=dword:00000001
; Set EnforceDisconnectedStandby to 0:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power]
"EnforceDisconnectedStandby"=dword:00000000
If you upgrade the version of Windows 10 on your Surface Studio 2 (for example, you upgrade from Windows 10 20H2 to 21H1), you will need to follow these instructions again to enable WOL.
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