Is Wake on Lan supported on Surface Pro 7+?

Question

Hi Team,

We are planning to configure Wake on Lan to awake the machine that is going to sleep/shutdown, could you please let us know if the machine model "Surface Pro 7+" will support Wake on Lan feature?

If yes, could you please help me with the procedures to configure this?

Answer 1

Hi Satish S1,

Thank you for reaching Microsoft Community. We appreciate for sharing your concern to us.

To answer your question, yes, the Surface Pro 7+ does support the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature.

Here are the steps to configure Wake on LAN on your Surface Pro 7+:

1. Surface devices must be plugged into AC power and use a Surface Ethernet adapter or docking device that is connected to a wired network.
2. When not in use, Surface devices enter an idle, low-powered state known as Modern Standby or Connected Standby.
3. 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.
4. The destination network interface card (NIC) compares the MAC address with its own before waking up the device.
5. 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.
6. WOL works by default for Surface devices in Modern Standby mode running Windows 10 version 1607 or later.

For more information, see Wake On LAN for Surface devices - Surface | Microsoft Learn.

You may also follow the steps below:

1. Open the Device Manager by pressing the Windows key + X and selecting Device Manager from the menu.
2. Expand the Network adapters section and locate your network adapter.
3. Right-click on your network adapter and select Properties.
4. Click on the Power Management tab.
5. Check the box next to "Allow this device to wake the computer" and click OK.
6. Open the Windows Settings app by pressing the Windows key + I.
7. Click on Update & Security.
8. Click on Power & sleep.
9. Click on Additional power settings.
10. Click on Change plan settings next to your current power plan.
11. Click on Change advanced power settings.
12. Expand the Network adapter section and then expand the "Wake on Magic Packet" option.
13. Set the option to "Enabled".
14. Click OK to save the changes.

Once you have configured Wake on LAN on your Surface Pro 7+, you can use a Wake on LAN tool to wake up your device remotely. Please note that Wake on LAN requires your device to be connected to a wired network and the network adapter to support Wake on LAN.

I hope these helps.

Kind regards,

Lavenia

Answer 2

Hi Satish S1,

We haven't heard from you, so we assume that your issue has already been addressed. We will not be monitoring this thread moving forward so, if you need further assistance, please create a new thread to discuss these concerns by clicking this link: Create a new question or start a discussion (microsoft.com)

Thank you for understanding. 

Kind regards,

Lavenia

Answer 3

This post may not be relevant to Windows 11.

In Windows 11, Magic Packet option is set in the Device Manager.