Policy

Prefer PIN pairing

Microsoft Windows

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Prefer PIN pairing
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > Wireless Display
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy applies to Wireless Display connections. This policy changes the preference order of the pairing methods. When enabled, it makes the connections to prefer a PIN for pairing to Wireless Display devices over the Push Button pairing method. If this policy setting is disabled or is not configured, by default Push Button pairing is preferred (if allowed by other policies).

Internal name
SetPINPreferred
Policy ID
5af76c2c4b62
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WirelessDisplay
Value name
PreferPinBasedPairing
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WirelessDisplay
Value name
PreferPinBasedPairing
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.