Policy

Require direct connection

Prevents hosts from allowing relay-based guests from joining their session. Live Share already supports the “Live Share: Connection Mode” setting, and so this policy is effectively just enforcing it to “direct”. If this policy is disabled, the host can allow relay-based guests to join their session if the host has not configured the “Live Share: Connection Mode” setting. For more information, see: https://aka.ms/vsls-policies

Policy
Pack Visual Studio
Category Live Share Settings
Policy ID b26860d90c0a
Internal name DirectConnectionMode

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\LiveShare\DirectConnectionMode (enabled) = 1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\LiveShare\DirectConnectionMode (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Prevents hosts from allowing relay-based guests from joining their session. Live Share already supports the “Live Share: Connection Mode” setting, and so this policy is effectively just enforcing it to “direct”. If this policy is disabled, the host can allow relay-based guests to join their session if the host has not configured the “Live Share: Connection Mode” setting. For more information, see: https://aka.ms/vsls-policies

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