Policy

Opt out of administrator updates

Indicates that the user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. If set to 1 (enabled) then the Visual Studio user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. This policy is for the developer user to set if they have admin permissions on the client machine. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/admin/updates/control.

Policy
Pack Visual Studio
Category Install and Update Settings
Policy ID 15afaab1a667
Internal name AdministratorUpdatesOptOut

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup\AdministratorUpdatesOptOut (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup\AdministratorUpdatesOptOut (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Indicates that the user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. If set to 1 (enabled) then the Visual Studio user does not want to receive administrator updates to Visual Studio. This policy is for the developer user to set if they have admin permissions on the client machine. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vs/admin/updates/control.

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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 updateDisable update notifications in Visual StudioDisplay administrator update notifications