Turn on certificate propagation from smart card
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Smart Card
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting allows you to manage the certificate propagation that occurs when a smart card is inserted. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting then certificate propagation will occur when you insert your smart card. If you disable this policy setting, certificate propagation will not occur and the certificates will not be made available to applications such as Outlook.

Internal name
CertPropEnabledString
Policy ID
aca85a39912a
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

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