Disable anonymous guests
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Visual Studio > Live Share Settings
Supported on
Visual Studio 2019 and higher.

Disallow anonymous guests from joining a session. Live Share already has the “Live Share: Anonymous Guest Approval” setting, and so this policy is effectively just enforcing that to “reject”. For more information, see: https://aka.ms/vsls-policies

Internal name
DisableAnonymousGuests
Policy ID
a064481d2305
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

Policy elements

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