Policy

Service Enabled

This policy setting determines whether Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is in audit mode or off. Users do not see notifications for any protection scenarios when Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender is in audit mode. Audit mode captures unsafe password entry events and sends telemetry through Microsoft Defender. If you enable this policy setting, Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is enabled in audit mode and your users are unable to turn it off. If you disable this policy setting, Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is off and it will not capture events, send telemetry, or notify users. Additionally, your users are unable to turn it on. If you don’t configure this setting, users can decide whether or not they will enable Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Windows Defender SmartScreen / Enhanced Phishing Protection
Policy ID 43bdc9e991f9
Internal name ServiceEnabled

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WTDS\Components\ServiceEnabled (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WTDS\Components\ServiceEnabled (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting determines whether Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is in audit mode or off. Users do not see notifications for any protection scenarios when Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender is in audit mode. Audit mode captures unsafe password entry events and sends telemetry through Microsoft Defender. If you enable this policy setting, Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is enabled in audit mode and your users are unable to turn it off. If you disable this policy setting, Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is off and it will not capture events, send telemetry, or notify users. Additionally, your users are unable to turn it on. If you don’t configure this setting, users can decide whether or not they will enable Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.

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