Policy

Turn off shared components

This policy setting controls the ability to turn off shared components. If you enable this policy setting, no packages on the system get the shared component functionality enabled by the msidbComponentAttributesShared attribute in the Component Table. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default, the shared component functionality is allowed.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategoryWindows Components / Windows Installer
Policy IDb14ce3f60c0f
Internal nameDisableSharedComponent

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableSharedComponent (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableSharedComponent (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls the ability to turn off shared components. If you enable this policy setting, no packages on the system get the shared component functionality enabled by the msidbComponentAttributesShared attribute in the Component Table. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default, the shared component functionality is allowed.

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