Configure Redirection Guard
- Policy ID
- ConfigureRedirectionGuardPolicy
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Printers
Description
Determines whether Redirection Guard is enabled for the print spooler.
You can enable this setting to configure the Redirection Guard policy being applied to spooler.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Redirection Guard will default to being 'Enabled'.
If you enable this setting you may select the following options:
-- Enabled : Redirection Guard will prevent any file redirections from being followed
-- Disabed : Redirection Guard will not be enabled and file redirections may be used within the spooler process
-- Audit : Redirection Guard will log events as though it were enabled but will not actually prevent file redirections from being used within the spooler.
Options
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- RedirectionGuardPolicyREG_DWORD