Put the computer to sleep 'NEVER' with GPO

I want to set all my workstations NEVER go into sleep mode. By default, I believe Windows 7 set to 30 minutes. I used domain gpo and able to set it at 'specify the system sleep timeout (plugged in)' and set timeout in seconds to 18748800 which turns out
to be over 5000 hours.
Is there anyway to set it to 'NEVER' instead? thanks.
Thang Mo

Hi,
Set the timeout value to 0 for a test.
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Yolanda
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