Policy

Turn on behavior monitoring

Microsoft Windows

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Turn on behavior monitoring
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus > Real-time Protection
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to configure behavior monitoring. If you enable or do not configure this setting, behavior monitoring will be enabled. If you disable this setting, behavior monitoring will be disabled.

Internal name
RealtimeProtection_DisableBehaviorMonitoring
Policy ID
a9d10c249e07
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection
Value name
DisableBehaviorMonitoring
REG_DWORD
HKLM
0
HKLM
1
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection
Value name
DisableBehaviorMonitoring
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
0
Disabled value
1

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.