microsoft/visual-studio-administrative-templates

Contains the administrative template defining the Visual Studio functionality that can be centrally managed by group policy

Visual Studio Administrative Templates

This repository contains the administrative templates for the Visual Studio family of products.

These templates define what Visual Studio functionality can be centrally managed by group policy.

Testing locally

On Windows, you can test locally by leveraging the Windows Local Group Policy Editor:

Step 1: Download the templates or download the latest release

• Clone or fork the repository
• Browse the files until you find the applicable .admx file
• Download the latest release
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/104405
• Install the application to insert the templates directly into the Windows policy definitions folder

Step 2: Insert downloaded templates into the Windows policy definitions folder

• Open File Explorer and navigate to the Policydefinitions folder:

  C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions

• Copy the desired .admx file into this location

  C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US

• Navigate into the applicable language folder next to the .admx file selected in Step 1
• Copy the .adml file into the respective Policydefinitions folder

Step 3: Test using the Local Group Policy Editor

• Open the Windows Local Group Policy Editor

• Navigate to the Administrative Templates > Microsoft Visual Studio node

• Apply the desired policy changes to Visual Studio

• Ensure the new group policy changes are applied to the respective product's path:

  Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\

• Restart your Visual Studio instance to pickup the new policy changes

Note: Depending on your company's policy, you might need to to force a group policy update via gpupdate.exe to apply changes

Contributing

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visual-studio-administrative-templates's Issues

Create GitHub Action to build and validate PR builds

This is tracked internally by task and scheduled for November's sprint.

Application copies files and displays incorrect message if user cancels or aborts Folder Browser Window

The Application currently still copies the files and displays incorrect message if user cancels or aborts Folder Browser Window.

It should not copy the files and display "File extraction was cancelled."

Any chance that extensions will make it into the ADMX?

Wondering if there will be support for white/blacklisting and forcing Visual Studio extensions.

DisableVisualStudioDevTunnels policy shows empty when set to 'disabled'

“For setting ‘Disable dev tunnels in Visual Studio’, if set disabled, it shows empty while it should show value==0 based on experience in registry path ‘SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Devtunnels’. Is it by design?”

I imagine we’d want the following:

Not Configured: null
Enabled: 1
Disabled: 0

    <policy 
        name="DisableVisualStudioDevTunnels" 
        class="Machine" 
        displayName="$(string.VSDevTunnelsDisable_DisplayName)" 
        explainText="$(string.VSDevTunnelsDisable__Explain)" 
        key="SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Devtunnels"
        valueName="DisableDevTunnelsInVisualStudio"> 
        <parentCategory ref="VisualStudioDevTunnelsSettings" />
        <supportedOn ref="VisualStudio2022AndHigher" />
    </policy>

Looking at the policy, we probably need to add an enabledValue and disabledValue:

        <enabledValue>
            <decimal value="1" />
        </enabledValue>
        <disabledValue>
            <decimal value="0" />
        </disabledValue>

PR Builds Failing with Permission Issue

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