Policy
Allow deployment operations in special profiles
Microsoft Windows
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016
This policy setting allows you to manage the deployment of packaged Microsoft Store apps when the user is signed in using a special profile. Special profiles are the following user profiles, where changes are discarded after the user signs off: Roaming user profiles to which the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" Group Policy setting applies Mandatory user profiles and super-mandatory profiles, which are created by an administrator Temporary user profiles, which are created when an error prevents the correct profile from loading User profiles for the Guest account and members of the Guests group If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy allows deployment operations (adding, registering, staging, updating, or removing an app package) of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Group Policy blocks deployment operations of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer | Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx Value name AllowDeploymentInSpecialProfiles | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 | HKLM 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.