Disable update notifications in Visual Studio
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Visual Studio > Install and Update Settings
Supported on
Visual Studio 2022, 17.12 and higher.

Allows an administrator to control the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE in specific situations. If set to 0 (blocked) or missing entirely, update notifications will appear in the Visual Studio IDE whenever an update is detected. If set to a 1, the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE will be suppressed for the Enterprise and Professional editions on the Release or LTSC channels, only if they are either receiving updates from a layout or if they are enrolled to receive Visual Studio Administrator Updates. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/setup/policies.

Internal name
UpdateNotificationsOptOut
Policy ID
f06ac20605c3
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
Value name
UpdateNotificationsOptOut
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
Value name
UpdateNotificationsOptOut
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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