Policy
Opt out of administrator updates
Visual Studio
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Indicates that the user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. If set to 1 (enabled) then the Visual Studio user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. This policy is for the developer user to set if they have admin permissions on the client machine. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/admin/updates/control.
Internal name
AdministratorUpdatesOptOut
Policy ID
15afaab1a667
Elements
0
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer | Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup Value name AdministratorUpdatesOptOut | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 | HKLM 0 |
Registry location
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
Value name
AdministratorUpdatesOptOut
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.