Docking macbook pro - it goes to sleep with lid closed

The other requirement, in addition to those already mentioned, for display-closed operation is that AC power must be connected to the computer. If it isn't, the computer won't wake up and run with its display closed.

Nothing will prevent it from sleeping when you first close the display, but if AC power is provided, it will wake up with any keystroke on the external keyboard.

I believe you can go in to the setting app and allow the mac book to be woken up from sleep by a mouse movement or keyboard click
I am assuming that you are using an external display and peripherals to use the mac book as a desktop replacement

You must have an external display, an external keyboard, and an external mouse hooked up for the MBP to wake up with mouse movement or keyboard input after it goes to sleep.

Pretty much restating what the previous comments said; make sure you have an external monitor plugged in (obvious) and a keyboard and a mouse, both turned off or on, it doesn't matter. Then close the lid on your laptop and put it in the docking station. To wake the computer up, turn the keyboard and mouse on if they were off, or press a few keys on the keyboard (yay for button mashing) or click a few times with the mouse.

This is actually annoying to me, because I have a Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX, which has a switch on the bottom to turn off. Normally I just let my computer go into sleep mode, so I close the lid and then turn the mouse off. But when a turn the mouse off, the computer wakes up, even though the lid is closed. So I have to turn the mouse off before I close the lid. Anyway, hope the former paragraph helped.

Message was edited by: Ben Alt.