Category: At least Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1
Turn off Quiet Hours
This policy setting turns off Quiet Hours functionality. If you enable this policy setting toast notifications will not be suppressed and some background tasks will not be deferred during the designated Quiet Hours time window each day. If you disable this policy setting toast notifications will be suppressed and some background task deferred during the designated Quiet Hours time window. Users will not be able to change this or any other Quiet Hours settings. If you do not configure this policy setting Quiet Hours are enabled by default but can be turned off or by the administrator or user.
Set the time Quiet Hours begins each day
This policy setting specifies the number of minutes after midnight (local time) that Quiet Hours is to begin each day. If you enable this policy setting the specified time will be used and users will not be able to customize any Quiet Hours settings. If you disable this policy setting a default value will be used and users will not be able to change it or any other Quiet Hours setting. If you do not configure this policy setting a default value will be used which administrators and users will be able to modify.
Set the time Quiet Hours ends each day
This policy setting specifies the number of minutes after midnight (local time) that Quiet Hours is to end each day. If you enable this policy setting the specified time will be used and users will not be able to customize any Quiet Hours settings. If you disable this policy setting a default value will be used and users will not be able to change it or any other Quiet Hours setting. If you do not configure this policy setting a default value will be used which administrators and users will be able to modify.
Turn off calls during Quiet Hours
This policy setting blocks voice and video calls during Quiet Hours. If you enable this policy setting voice and video calls will be blocked during the designated Quiet Hours time window each day and users will not be able to customize any other Quiet Hours settings. If you disable this policy setting voice and video calls will be allowed during Quiet Hours and users will not be able to customize this or any other Quiet Hours settings. If you do not configure this policy setting voice and video calls will be allowed during Quiet Hours by default. Adminstrators and users will be able to modify this setting.
Sign-in last interactive user automatically after a system-initiated restart
This policy setting controls whether a device will automatically sign-in the last interactive user after Windows Update restarts the system. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting the device securely saves the user’s credentials (including the user name domain and encrypted password) to configure automatic sign-in after a Windows Update restart. After the Windows Update restart the user is automatically signed-in and the session is automatically locked with all the lock screen apps configured for that user. If you disable this policy setting the device does not store the user’s credentials for automatic sign-in after a Windows Update restart. The users’ lock screen apps are not restarted after the system restarts.
Turn off Automatic Download and Install of updates
Enables or disables the automatic download and installation of app updates. If you enable this setting the automatic download and installation of app updates is turned off. If you disable this setting the automatic download and installation of app updates is turned on. If you don’t configure this setting the automatic download and installation of app updates is determined by a registry setting that the user can change using Settings in the Windows Store.
Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations
Even when Windows Update is configured to receive updates from an intranet update service it will periodically retrieve information from the public Windows Update service to enable future connections to Windows Update and other services like Microsoft Update or the Windows Store. Enabling this policy will disable that functionality and may cause connection to public services such as the Windows Store to stop working. Note: This policy applies only when this PC is configured to connect to an intranet update service using the “Specify intranet Microsoft update service location” policy.
Turn off the advertising ID
This policy setting turns off the advertising ID preventing apps from using the ID for experiences across apps. If you enable this policy setting the advertising ID is turned off. Apps can’t use the ID for experiences across apps. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users can control whether apps can use the advertising ID for experiences across apps.
Search just apps from the Apps view
This policy setting prevents the user from searching apps files settings (and the web if enabled) when the user searches from the Apps view. This policy setting is only applied when the Apps view is set as the default view for Start. If you enable this policy setting searching from the Apps view will only search the list of installed apps. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting the user can configure this setting.
List desktop apps first in the Apps view
This policy setting allows desktop apps to be listed first in the Apps view in Start. If you enable this policy setting desktop apps would be listed first when the apps are sorted by category in the Apps view. The other sorting options would continue to be available and the user could choose to change their default sorting options. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting the desktop apps won’t be listed first when the apps are sorted by category and the user can configure this setting.