Policy

Only allow device authentication for the Microsoft Account Sign-In Assistant

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Only allow device authentication for the Microsoft Account Sign-In Assistant
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Microsoft account
Supported on
At least Windows 11 Version 22H2

Supported OS tags: Windows11

This setting determines whether to only allow enterprise device authentication for the Microsoft Account Sign-in Assistant service (wlidsvc). By default, this setting is disabled and allows both user and device authentication. When the value is set to 1, only allow device authentication, and block user authentication.

Internal name
MicrosoftAccount_RestrictToEnterpriseDeviceAuthenticationOnly
Policy ID
ae614b6fe8da
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
EnterpriseDeviceAuthOnly
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
EnterpriseDeviceAuthOnly
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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