Policy

Disable update notifications in Visual Studio

Allows an administrator to control the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE in specific situations. If set to 0 (blocked) or missing entirely, update notifications will appear in the Visual Studio IDE whenever an update is detected. If set to a 1, the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE will be suppressed for the Enterprise and Professional editions on the Release or LTSC channels, only if they are either receiving updates from a layout or if they are enrolled to receive Visual Studio Administrator Updates. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/setup/policies.

Policy
Pack Visual Studio
Category Install and Update Settings
Policy ID f06ac20605c3
Internal name UpdateNotificationsOptOut

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup\UpdateNotificationsOptOut (enabled) = 1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup\UpdateNotificationsOptOut (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Allows an administrator to control the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE in specific situations. If set to 0 (blocked) or missing entirely, update notifications will appear in the Visual Studio IDE whenever an update is detected. If set to a 1, the update notification in the Visual Studio IDE will be suppressed for the Enterprise and Professional editions on the Release or LTSC channels, only if they are either receiving updates from a layout or if they are enrolled to receive Visual Studio Administrator Updates. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/setup/policies.

Related policies

Allow standard users to execute installer operationsControl what products are available to install on the Visual Studio Installer's Available tab.Custom path to the update configuration fileDisable downloading updates automaticallyDisable the ability to rollback or undo a Visual Studio updateDisplay administrator update notificationsEnable administrator updates