Policy

Allow deployment operations in special profiles

This policy setting allows you to manage the deployment of packaged Microsoft Store apps when the user is signed in using a special profile. Special profiles are the following user profiles, where changes are discarded after the user signs off: Roaming user profiles to which the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" Group Policy setting applies Mandatory user profiles and super-mandatory profiles, which are created by an administrator Temporary user profiles, which are created when an error prevents the correct profile from loading User profiles for the Guest account and members of the Guests group If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy allows deployment operations (adding, registering, staging, updating, or removing an app package) of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Group Policy blocks deployment operations of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategoryWindows Components / App Package Deployment
Policy ID3c875a029a4d
Internal nameAllowDeploymentInSpecialProfiles

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx\AllowDeploymentInSpecialProfiles (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx\AllowDeploymentInSpecialProfiles (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to manage the deployment of packaged Microsoft Store apps when the user is signed in using a special profile. Special profiles are the following user profiles, where changes are discarded after the user signs off: Roaming user profiles to which the "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" Group Policy setting applies Mandatory user profiles and super-mandatory profiles, which are created by an administrator Temporary user profiles, which are created when an error prevents the correct profile from loading User profiles for the Guest account and members of the Guests group If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy allows deployment operations (adding, registering, staging, updating, or removing an app package) of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Group Policy blocks deployment operations of packaged Microsoft Store apps when using a special profile.

Related policies

Allow a Windows app to share application data between usersAllow all trusted apps to installAllowed package family names for non-admin user installAllows development of packaged Microsoft Store apps and installing them from an integrated development environment (IDE)Archive infrequently used appsDisable installing Windows apps on non-system volumesNot allow per-user unsigned packages to install by default (requires explicitly allow per install)