Configure Microsoft Defender Application Guard print settings

Policy ID: AppHVSI_PrintingConfig
Scope: Computer Configuration
Supported on: Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education with Microsoft Defender Application Guard in Enterprise mode
Source: Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
Category: Windows Components › Microsoft Defender Application Guard

Description

This policy setting allows you to decide how the print functionality behaves while in Microsoft Defender Application Guard.

If you enable this setting, you must choose one or many of the following behaviors:

- Disable all print functionality in Application Guard.

- Enable printing to existing network printers.

- Enable printing to local printers.

- Enable printing to PDF, allows people to print as PDF and save the resulting file on the host.

- Enable printing to XPS, allows people to print as XPS and save the resulting file on the host.

If you disable or don't configure this setting, all print functionality is turned off in Application Guard.

Allowed print types in Application Guard.
To determine which types of printing to allow, you must choose: - 0. Disables all print functionality. - 1. Enables only XPS printing. - 2. Enables only PDF printing. - 3. Enables both PDF and XPS printing. - 4. Enables only local printing. - 5. Enables both local and XPS printing. - 6. Enables both local and PDF printing. - 7. Enables local, PDF, and XPS printing. - 8. Enables only network printing. - 9. Enables both network and XPS printing. - 10. Enables both network and PDF printing. - 11. Enables network, PDF, and XPS printing. - 12. Enables both network and local printing. - 13. Enables network, local, and XPS printing. - 14. Enables network, local, and PDF printing. - 15. Enables all printing.

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