Policy

Allow administrators to override Device Installation Restriction policies

This policy setting allows you to determine whether members of the Administrators group can install and update the drivers for any device, regardless of other policy settings. If you enable this policy setting, members of the Administrators group can use the Add Hardware wizard or the Update Driver wizard to install and update the drivers for any device. If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting affects redirection of the specified devices from a remote desktop client to the remote desktop server. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, members of the Administrators group are subject to all policy settings that restrict device installation.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category System / Device Installation / Device Installation Restrictions
Policy ID cf1aa14af7e4
Internal name DeviceInstall_AllowAdminInstall

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions\AllowAdminInstall (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions\AllowAdminInstall (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to determine whether members of the Administrators group can install and update the drivers for any device, regardless of other policy settings. If you enable this policy setting, members of the Administrators group can use the Add Hardware wizard or the Update Driver wizard to install and update the drivers for any device. If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting affects redirection of the specified devices from a remote desktop client to the remote desktop server. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, members of the Administrators group are subject to all policy settings that restrict device installation.

Related policies

Allow installation of devices that match any of these device IDsAllow installation of devices that match any of these device instance IDsAllow installation of devices using drivers that match these device setup classesApply layered order of evaluation for Allow and Prevent device installation policies across all device match criteriaDisplay a custom message title when device installation is prevented by a policy settingDisplay a custom message when installation is prevented by a policy settingPrevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings