Policy

Prohibit connection to roaming Mobile Broadband networks

Microsoft Windows

Back to Windows Connection ManagerBack to main
Prohibit connection to roaming Mobile Broadband networks
Jump to overview

Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > Windows Connection Manager
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting prevents clients from connecting to Mobile Broadband networks when the client is registered on a roaming provider network. If this policy setting is enabled, all automatic and manual connection attempts to roaming provider networks are blocked until the client registers with the home provider network. If this policy setting is not configured or is disabled, clients are allowed to connect to roaming provider Mobile Broadband networks.

Internal name
WCM_DisableRoaming
Policy ID
0ec882b24b84
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WcmSvc\GroupPolicy
Value name
fBlockRoaming
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WcmSvc\GroupPolicy
Value name
fBlockRoaming
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.