In the end, I had to remove my group policy, touch each computer to make sure sleep mode was disabled, disable hibernate with "powercfg -h off" from an elevated command prompt, and then re-create my policy. So the posts that recommended checking the workstation settings, all those settings are grayed out or even missing when the policy is applied. I should have specified initially that what I was getting at is the fact that there doesn't seem to be a group policy to apply what I want to do - disable sleep / hibernate - and it seems that it just removes access to these settings, but if sleep was enabled before the group policy was applied, it continues to be enabled, the user just loses access to changing the settings. Sorry, I wasn't getting notifications on this post and in my crazy IT world, forgot about it.
Are there other group policy settings that I need to set in order to set sleep to "never" before I enable these policies that remove access to the configuration?Īny additional insight or suggestions are much appreciated. My suspicion is that even though I have set the policies to prevent users from setting sleep options, that since sleep was enabled on these computers when I turned on the group policy, that sleep continues to be enabled behind the scenes and I've just removed access to the settings that control it. The biggest difference between this network and one that I have managed from the get-go is that I always turn off sleep after initially setting up a computer, before joining to the domain. I check the power settings, and sleep options don't even show up there, but the event log conclusively shows the system is automatically going to sleep due to being idle. However, even with these settings, the system still goes to sleep. Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping - Disabled Allow automatic sleep with open network files - Disabled I made the following changes to the Default Domain Policy - Computer Configuration - Policies - Administrative Templates - System/Power Management/Sleep Settings No problem, I've set sleep via group policy plenty of times. I came to the conclusion that the old out of date unlicensed antivirus package was keeping the computer awake due to activity or updates and preventing it from going to sleep.
When I uninstalled this and moved them to a cloud platform for antivirus, computers that before were always on now kept going to sleep. It had an old unlicensed centrally managed antivirus software that would detect threats, but since they never bought the license, it would just log them and never remove them. The one that most closely matches my scenario is here (but it got closed without an resolution) -Įssentially, I inherited a network that was pretty sloppily done.
So, this problem has been asked before, but never answered.
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