Policy

Prevent IIS installation

Microsoft Windows

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Prevent IIS installation
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Internet Information Services
Supported on
Windows Server 2003 only

Supported OS tags: WindowsServer2003

"This policy setting prevents installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) on this computer. If you enable this policy setting, Internet Information Services (IIS) cannot be installed, and you will not be able to install Windows components or applications that require IIS. Users installing Windows components or applications that require IIS might not receive a warning that IIS cannot be installed because of this Group Policy setting. Enabling this setting will not have any effect on IIS if IIS is already installed on the computer. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, IIS can be installed, as well as all the programs and applications that require IIS to run."

Internal name
PreventIISInstall
Policy ID
cdbbdf1d80f6
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\IIS
Value name
PreventIISInstall
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\IIS
Value name
PreventIISInstall
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.