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I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 Box for my development purpose. I could not see any hibernate/sleep option in the shutdown options. What could be the reason to hide these options for a server machine?

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Maybe because there's no use for those options on a server? Why would a server ever need to hibernate and not shut down or restart? – AndrejaKo Jan 19 at 6:11
yea I agree. hibernation/sleep isn't really suitable for a server environment. I just wanted to make sure if it's the only reason. – sarat Jan 19 at 6:16
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Have you installed Hype-v role? If yes, then Windows disables the Sleep and Hibernate options. You will need to make the Hyper-V service start on Demand for Sleep and Hibernate options to be re-enabled.

Refer to this blog post for details.

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