Recently, we ran into the issue of users replacing their keyboard and mouse with Bluetooth devices. What happened was they would lose connectivity and the error below would appear in the event viewer logs.
While researching the issue, we found that the user could open up the laptop that was docked and get connectivity back by hitting any key. The culprit was the Power Management setting of the Bluetooth device. The "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" setting disconnected the Bluetooth devices, and because both were the keyboard and mouse, there was no way for them to wake Bluetooth back up. The fix for this was to uncheck the setting as shown below.
At first, I thought because this was a similar setting as is on the NIC Power Management that I could manipulate it via the registry. I could not find any key that configures this setting. Through more research, I was able to find this solution in a posting on Reddit.
I took the script and made it into a one-liner with the Enable variable set to $false in the beginning since it is enabled ($true) by default. This will allow for the script to be implemented inside a task sequence in MDT or SCCM.
Here is the script in both a one-liner and regular code.
PowerShell One-Liner if you want to use this in an MDT or SCCM command line task sequence:
powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command "&{$Enable=$false;$BTDevice=Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -InstanceId USB*;$BTDevice | ForEach-Object -Process {$WQL='SELECT * FROM MSPower_DeviceEnable WHERE InstanceName LIKE ' + [char]34 + [char]37 + $([Regex]::Escape($_.PNPDeviceID)) + [char]37 + [char]34;Set-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -Query $WQL -Property @{Enable = $Enable} -PassThru};Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -InstanceId USB* | ForEach-Object -Process {$Test='InstanceName LIKE ' + [char]34 + [char]37 + $([Regex]::Escape($_.PNPDeviceID)) + [char]37 + [char]34;If ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName MSPower_DeviceEnable -Namespace root\wmi -Filter $Test).Enable -eq $Enable) {Write-Host 'Success';Exit 0} else {Write-Host 'Failed';Exit 1}}}"
PowerShell .PS1 File
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Bluetooth Power Management
.DESCRIPTION
This script will enable or disable the Power Management Setting that allows the computer to turn off the Bluetooth device to save power
.PARAMETER Enable
$true will check the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. $false will do the opposite. The default has been set to $false since it is originally checked in the OS
.NOTES
===========================================================================
Created with: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2017 v5.4.142
Created on: 2/12/2019 3:20 PM
Created by: Mick Pletcher
Filename: BluetoothPowerState.ps1
===========================================================================
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param
(
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
$Enable = $false
)
#$Enable = $false
$BTDevice = Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -InstanceId USB*; $BTDevice | ForEach-Object -Process {
$WQL = 'SELECT * FROM MSPower_DeviceEnable WHERE InstanceName LIKE ' + [char]34 + '%' + $([Regex]::Escape($_.PNPDeviceID)) + '%' + [char]34
Set-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -Query $WQL -Property @{
Enable = $Enable
} -PassThru
}
Get-PnpDevice -Class Bluetooth -InstanceId USB* | ForEach-Object -Process {
$Test = 'InstanceName LIKE ' + [char]34 + '%' + $([Regex]::Escape($_.PNPDeviceID)) + '%' + [char]34
If ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName MSPower_DeviceEnable -Namespace root\wmi -Filter $Test).Enable -eq $Enable) {
Write-Host $BTDevice.FriendlyName'Power Management Successfully Configured'
Write-Host
Exit 0
} else {
Write-Host $BTDevice.FriendlyName'Power Management Failed to Configure'
Exit 1
}
}
