Alan Burchill contacted me recently and let me know he has developed a really comprehensive blog post titled "How to use Group Policy Preferences to manage Windows Power Plans". Extract:
"One of the new feature of Group Policy Preferences in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is support for configuring power plans using preferences for Windows Vista and later (see Image 1). You used to be able to control power management in Vista using native policies however the advanced targeting of preferences now enables lot of new scenarios with power savings..."
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