Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
- Policy ID
- PreventRemoteQueries
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- Any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Windows Components › Search
Description
If enabled, clients will be unable to query this computer's index remotely. Thus, when they are browsing network shares that are stored on this computer, they will not search them using the index. If disabled, client search requests will use this computer's index. Default is disabled.
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- PreventRemoteQueriesREG_DWORD