Microsoft.Policies.PlugandPlay• Machine
Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
This setting turns off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services in its entirety, and will cause all dependent applications to stop working. Peer-to-Peer protocols allow for applications in the areas of RTC, collaboration, content distribution and distributed processing. If you enable this setting, peer-to-peer protocols will be turned off. If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the peer-to-peer protocols will be turned on.
Policy Details
- Policy Name
- P2P_Disabled
- Registry Key
- Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet
- Value Name
- Disabled
- Supported On
- At least Windows XP Professional with SP2
- Available Languages
- en-us
Supported Values
Simple Enabled/Disabled toggle controlling whether the value exists under the configured registry key.