Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Search
Supported on
Any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later

If enabled, clients will be unable to query this computer's index remotely. Thus, when they are browsing network shares that are stored on this computer, they will not search them using the index. If disabled, client search requests will use this computer's index. Default is disabled.

Internal name
PreventRemoteQueries
Policy ID
74b97ad78a44
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
Value name
PreventRemoteQueries
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
Value name
PreventRemoteQueries
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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