Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Control Power and Sleep Intune Policy Settings to have Energy Efficient and Secured Windows Devices #msintune
This video, titled "Daily Intune Tips," explains why it's important for organizations to create policies that restrict users from changing power and sleep settings on their devices using Microsoft Intune.
Here's a detailed timeline of the video's content:
0:00 - 0:05: Introduction to Daily Intune Tips. The video starts with a title card "Intune Tips" and then transitions to the presenter introducing "Daily The Intune Tips" from the HTMD Community, emphasizing "How to Manage Devices."
0:05 - 0:15: Understanding Intune Power Sleep - Why Deploy Security Policies?
The presenter highlights a key point: "When devices don't enter proper sleep or hibernate states, they can remain active and potentially vulnerable."
He then poses the question: "Why do we deploy security policies related to power settings using Intune?"
0:15 - 0:35: Three Main Pillars for Power Policies. The presenter outlines the three core reasons for these policies, with corresponding visuals of the Intune portal to illustrate where these settings are configured:
0:21 - 0:27: Security, Data Protection, and DLP (Data Loss Prevention). He explains that if users have full control, devices might stay on, which isn't secure and can lead to data loss.
0:29 - 0:32: Energy Efficiency. He mentions that uncontrolled power settings won't be energy efficient.
0:32 - 0:35: Enhanced Device Management. This is presented as the third pillar, indicating better control over devices.
0:35 - 0:41: User Control vs. Organizational Needs. The presenter returns to the Intune portal view and emphasizes that "If you give control to users, then they can keep power settings what they want," which "won't be energy efficient."
0:45 - 0:57: Security Perspective and Need for Power Settings. He reiterates that "from a security perspective, data loss prevention is one of the key things, and that is why we might need power settings sometimes."
0:57 - 1:19: Enhanced Device Management and Updates. The presenter explains the relationship between power settings and enhanced device management:
If IT wants to install "critical application updates or patches and restart it when the user is not available," then "we should have optimized power setting." This highlights the importance of devices being in predictable power states for maintenance.
1:19 - 1:28: Configuring "Allow Power Sleep" to "Block".
The presenter transitions back to the Intune portal, stating, "So let's go ahead and configure Allow power sleep settings using Intune."
He shows the "Settings picker" again, where "Allow Power Sleep" is selected and explains that this setting controls whether users can change power and sleep settings.
1:28 - 1:35: Detailed Information on "Allow Power Sleep" Policy. The video briefly shows the Microsoft documentation for the "AllowPowerSleep" policy, detailing its scope, applicable OS, and the meaning of its values (0 for Not allowed, 1 for Allowed).
1:35 - 1:54: Steps to Create and Apply the Policy. The presenter provides a concise walkthrough of the steps within Intune, mirroring the previous video's actions:
"Open Intune admin portal and go to Devices, Windows, and create a policy."
"Select Settings catalog."
"Under Settings catalog, select the category called Settings and then search for Allow power sleep configuration over there."
1:54 - 2:04: Enabling/Disabling the Configuration. He explains that once "Allow Power Sleep" is found, "you will get two options to enable or disable this configuration for users." He then demonstrates selecting the "Test_HTMD_Policy" group for assignment.
2:04 - 2:15: Final Action and Conclusion.
He clarifies the action: "So what you're going to do is, you need to disable it so that users won't be able to set or change any power settings."
The video concludes with the presenter saying, "Hope this was helpful. Thank you."
In essence, the video provides both the "why" and a brief "how-to" for implementing power management policies in Intune, focusing on security, energy efficiency, and simplified device management.
Control Power and Sleep Intune Policy Settings to have Energy Efficient and Secured Windows Devices #msintune
This video, titled "Daily Intune Tips," explains why it's important for organizations to create policies that restrict users from changing power and sleep settings on their devices using Microsoft Intune.
Here's a detailed timeline of the video's content:
0:00 - 0:05: Introduction to Daily Intune Tips. The video starts with a title card "Intune Tips" and then transitions to the presenter introducing "Daily The Intune Tips" from the HTMD Community, emphasizing "How to Manage Devices."
0:05 - 0:15: Understanding Intune Power Sleep - Why Deploy Security Policies?
The presenter highlights a key point: "When devices don't enter proper sleep or hibernate states, they can remain active and potentially vulnerable."
He then poses the question: "Why do we deploy security policies related to power settings using Intune?"
0:15 - 0:35: Three Main Pillars for Power Policies. The presenter outlines the three core reasons for these policies, with corresponding visuals of the Intune portal to illustrate where these settings are configured:
0:21 - 0:27: Security, Data Protection, and DLP (Data Loss Prevention). He explains that if users have full control, devices might stay on, which isn't secure and can lead to data loss.
0:29 - 0:32: Energy Efficiency. He mentions that uncontrolled power settings won't be energy efficient.
0:32 - 0:35: Enhanced Device Management. This is presented as the third pillar, indicating better control over devices.
0:35 - 0:41: User Control vs. Organizational Needs. The presenter returns to the Intune portal view and emphasizes that "If you give control to users, then they can keep power settings what they want," which "won't be energy efficient."
0:45 - 0:57: Security Perspective and Need for Power Settings. He reiterates that "from a security perspective, data loss prevention is one of the key things, and that is why we might need power settings sometimes."
0:57 - 1:19: Enhanced Device Management and Updates. The presenter explains the relationship between power settings and enhanced device management:
If IT wants to install "critical application updates or patches and restart it when the user is not available," then "we should have optimized power setting." This highlights the importance of devices being in predictable power states for maintenance.
1:19 - 1:28: Configuring "Allow Power Sleep" to "Block".
The presenter transitions back to the Intune portal, stating, "So let's go ahead and configure Allow power sleep settings using Intune."
He shows the "Settings picker" again, where "Allow Power Sleep" is selected and explains that this setting controls whether users can change power and sleep settings.
1:28 - 1:35: Detailed Information on "Allow Power Sleep" Policy. The video briefly shows the Microsoft documentation for the "AllowPowerSleep" policy, detailing its scope, applicable OS, and the meaning of its values (0 for Not allowed, 1 for Allowed).
1:35 - 1:54: Steps to Create and Apply the Policy. The presenter provides a concise walkthrough of the steps within Intune, mirroring the previous video's actions:
"Open Intune admin portal and go to Devices, Windows, and create a policy."
"Select Settings catalog."
"Under Settings catalog, select the category called Settings and then search for Allow power sleep configuration over there."
1:54 - 2:04: Enabling/Disabling the Configuration. He explains that once "Allow Power Sleep" is found, "you will get two options to enable or disable this configuration for users." He then demonstrates selecting the "Test_HTMD_Policy" group for assignment.
2:04 - 2:15: Final Action and Conclusion.
He clarifies the action: "So what you're going to do is, you need to disable it so that users won't be able to set or change any power settings."
The video concludes with the presenter saying, "Hope this was helpful. Thank you."
In essence, the video provides both the "why" and a brief "how-to" for implementing power management policies in Intune, focusing on security, energy efficiency, and simplified device management.
