Policy

Prevent automatic discovery of feeds and Web Slices

This policy setting prevents users from having Internet Explorer automatically discover whether a feed or Web Slice is available for an associated webpage. If you enable this policy setting, the user does not receive a notification on the toolbar that a feed or Web Slice is available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user receives a notification when a feed or Web Slice is available and can click the feed discovery button.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / RSS Feeds
Policy ID e3a2b40458f7
Internal name Disable_Feed_Discovery

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feed Discovery\Enabled (enabled) = 0
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feed Discovery\Enabled (disabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feed Discovery\Enabled (enabled) = 0
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feed Discovery\Enabled (disabled) = 1

Policy notes

This policy setting prevents users from having Internet Explorer automatically discover whether a feed or Web Slice is available for an associated webpage. If you enable this policy setting, the user does not receive a notification on the toolbar that a feed or Web Slice is available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user receives a notification when a feed or Web Slice is available and can click the feed discovery button.

Related policies

Prevent access to feed listPrevent downloading of enclosuresPrevent subscribing to or deleting a feed or a Web SliceTurn off background synchronization for feeds and Web SlicesTurn on Basic feed authentication over HTTP