Policy

Allow Remote Shell Access

This policy setting configures access to remote shells. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, new remote shell connections are accepted by the server. If you set this policy to ‘disabled’, new remote shell connections are rejected by the server.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Windows Remote Shell
Policy ID 47b60b7846f4
Internal name AllowRemoteShellAccess

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WinRM\Service\WinRS\AllowRemoteShellAccess (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WinRM\Service\WinRS\AllowRemoteShellAccess (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting configures access to remote shells. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, new remote shell connections are accepted by the server. If you set this policy to ‘disabled’, new remote shell connections are rejected by the server.

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