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“Free” Solutions for Activating Sleep Settings
•Template Image Replication
oManually activate CPM and MPM settings in the master template hard drive image before replication & roll out
•Microsoft’s Windows Vista
oGroup Policy provides a way to centrally manage MPM and CPM features
•MSFT Group Policy Preferences
oProvides means to centrally manage Vista and XP machines
•Login Scripts
oPowercfg.exe can be used in a login script to configure MPM and CPM settings in Windows XP and Vista
•EZ GPO
oProvides Group Policy Objects for centrally configuring power management settings in Windows 2000 & XP
•Windows Task Scheduler
oCan force logged-out PCs to go into standby or hibernate
Image Replication
Vista
Group Policy Preferences provide a way to centrally activate monitor and computer power management features on Windows Vista and XP machines, but require either 1) Windows Server 2008 or 2) a Windows 2003 environment being managed via either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista.

Powercfg.exe can be used in a logon script to configure power management settings in Windows XP and Vista. This method requires enhancing registry rights, which can be configured through Group Policy.

Scheduled tasks can be used to put computers into standby or hibernate mode using a combination of VBScript and PsShutdown from Microsoft (formerly from Sysinternals) — provided users are logged off. PsShutdown can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website.  This method has an advantage over using Power Policies to control power management: you can force logged-out PCs to go into standby mode, while allowing users to control their own Power Policies when logged on.