Policy

Allow deployment operations in special profiles

Windows 11 25H2

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ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Components > App Package Deployment
Supported onAt 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 manage the deployment of packaged Microsoft Store apps when the user is signed in using a special profile. Special profiles are the following user profiles, where changes are discarded after the user signs off: Roaming user profiles to which the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" Group Policy setting applies Mandatory user profiles and super-mandatory profiles, which are created by an administrator Temporary user profiles, which are created when an error prevents the correct profile from loading User profiles for the Guest account and members of the Guests group If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy allows deployment operations (adding, registering, staging, updating, or removing an app package) of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Group Policy blocks deployment operations of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile.

Internal name
AllowDeploymentInSpecialProfiles
Policy ID
3c875a029a4d
Elements
0

Registry values

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx\AllowDeploymentInSpecialProfilesREG_DWORD
1
0

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