Policy

Control whether exclusions are visible to local users

Microsoft Windows

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Control whether exclusions are visible to local users
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1607

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting controls whether exclusions are visible to local users on the device. Use the policy setting HideExclusionsFromLocalAdmins to hide exclusions from both standard and administrative local users.

Internal name
HideExclusionsFromLocalUsers
Policy ID
35b295c58f2b
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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