Policy

Prevent subscribing to or deleting a feed or a Web Slice

This policy setting prevents the user from subscribing to or deleting a feed or a Web Slice. If you enable this policy setting, the menu command to subscribe to a feed and the menu command to delete a feed are disabled, and access to Web Slices is turned off. A developer cannot add a feed or Web Slice or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs. A developer also cannot create or delete folders. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user can subscribe to a feed or Web Slice through the Subscribe button in Internet Explorer and delete a feed or Web Slice through the feed list control. A developer can add or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / RSS Feeds
Policy ID f26a7b079927
Internal name Disable_Feed_Add_Remove

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feeds\DisableAddRemove (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feeds\DisableAddRemove (disabled) = 0
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feeds\DisableAddRemove (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Feeds\DisableAddRemove (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting prevents the user from subscribing to or deleting a feed or a Web Slice. If you enable this policy setting, the menu command to subscribe to a feed and the menu command to delete a feed are disabled, and access to Web Slices is turned off. A developer cannot add a feed or Web Slice or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs. A developer also cannot create or delete folders. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user can subscribe to a feed or Web Slice through the Subscribe button in Internet Explorer and delete a feed or Web Slice through the feed list control. A developer can add or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs.

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