Turn on behavior monitoring
- Policy ID
- RealtimeProtection_DisableBehaviorMonitoring
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Windows Components › Microsoft Defender Antivirus › Real-time Protection
Description
This policy setting allows you to configure behavior monitoring.
If you enable or do not configure this setting, behavior monitoring will be enabled.
If you disable this setting, behavior monitoring will be disabled.
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- DisableBehaviorMonitoringREG_DWORD