Policy
Allow WUfB Cloud Processing
Microsoft Windows
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016
This policy is deprecated and will only work on Windows 10 version 1809. Setting this policy will have no effect for other supported versions of Windows. This policy setting configures an Azure Active Directory joined device so that Microsoft is the processor of the Windows diagnostic data collected from the device, subject to the Product Terms at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2185086. To enable this behavior: 1. Enable this policy setting 2. Join an Azure Active Directory account to the device 3. Set Allow Telemetry to value 1 - Required, or higher When these policies are configured, Windows diagnostic data collected from the device will be subject to Microsoft processor commitments. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, devices enrolled to the Windows Update for Business deployment service will not be able to take advantage of some deployment service features.
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\DataCollection Value name AllowWUfBCloudProcessing | REG_DWORD | HKLM 8 | HKLM 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.