Allow Remote Shell Access
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Windows Remote Shell
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 configures access to remote shells. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, new remote shell connections are accepted by the server. If you set this policy to ‘disabled’, new remote shell connections are rejected by the server.

Internal name
AllowRemoteShellAccess
Policy ID
47b60b7846f4
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WinRM\Service\WinRS
Value name
AllowRemoteShellAccess
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WinRM\Service\WinRS
Value name
AllowRemoteShellAccess
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.