Control Awake's Keep Screen On Feature via Policy

[bmkaiser]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

As of version 0.78, the existing group policy templates allow you to disable utilities via the Configure enabled state for individual utilities policy. This means that the Awake utility can be disabled entirely. However, it would be useful to control just the Keep Screen On setting within the Awake utility. This ensures that screen lock timeout policies can still be enforced even in scenarios where you don't want your computer to go to sleep.

Scenario when this would be used?

This is useful in an organization where your computer's lock screen automatically turns on after X minutes. Having the ability to prevent keeping the screen on allows a computer to still use the Awake utility while also protecting data behind a login.

Supporting information

Existing group policy documentation

[htcfreek]

We should add policies to control the allowed awake modes too.