Policy
Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
If enabled, clients will be unable to query this computer's index remotely. Thus, when they are browsing network shares that are stored on this computer, they will not search them using the index. If disabled, client search requests will use this computer's index. Default is disabled.
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Search
Policy ID
74b97ad78a44 Internal name
PreventRemoteQueries Registry
Copy registry mappings
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\PreventRemoteQueries (enabled) = 1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\PreventRemoteQueries (disabled) = 0Policy notes
If enabled, clients will be unable to query this computer's index remotely. Thus, when they are browsing network shares that are stored on this computer, they will not search them using the index. If disabled, client search requests will use this computer's index. Default is disabled.