Policy

Control what products are available to install on the Visual Studio Installer's Available tab.

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Control what products are available to install on the Visual Studio Installer's Available tab.
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Visual Studio > Install and Update Settings
Supported on
Visual Studio 2022, 17.13 and higher.

This policy can be used to restrict which Visual Studio product shows up on the Installer's Available Tab. For example, including Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Professional in the list will cause the Visual Studio Professional edition to be the only available option to install. This policy is only applied to client machines that have just the Visual Studio Installer installed. For more information, see  https://aka.ms/vs/setup/policies.

Internal name
AvailableTabProducts
Policy ID
d43f001d658e
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
Computer
Product Ids to display in Available Tab of Visual Studio Installer
ID AvailableTabProducts_TextBox
text
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
Value name
AvailableTabProducts
Type
REG_SZ
None
Product Ids to display in Available Tab of Visual Studio Installer
Computer · Type text
Registry mapping
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
Value name
AvailableTabProducts
Type
REG_SZ
DetailsNone