↓ Skip to main content
Michael the Admin
Michael the Admin
Visual Studio - Allow Standard Users to Perform Admin Actions
  1. Patch My PC/
  2. Products/
  3. Visual Studio/

Visual Studio - Allow Standard Users to Perform Admin Actions

Michael Escamilla
Author
Michael Escamilla
Table of Contents

Just a quick post to save these links. Will maybe give it a try and update later.

Post on the feature
#

Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices

The settings documentation for this feature:
#

Configure policies for enterprise deployments of Visual Studio

Example
#

Example of setting the registry keys using the PSADT Function: Set-ADTRegistryKey

Set-ADTRegistryKey -Key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup" -Name 'AllowStandardUserControl' -Value 2 -Type DWord
Set-ADTRegistryKey -Key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup" -Name 'AdministratorUpdatesEnabled' -Value 2 -Type DWord
Set-ADTRegistryKey -Key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup" -Name 'AdministratorUpdatesNotifications' -Value 1 -Type DWord