Document InformationDisabled feedback group policy for SSMS#47
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Adds the InformationDisabled policy to the SSMS feedback group policies table. This machine policy disables informational announcements shown via info bars, and is read from the shared HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Feedback\InformationDisabled registry value. The gating shipped in the Visual Studio 2026 (18.x) shell. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Can you review the proposed changes? IMPORTANT: When the changes are ready for publication, adding a #label:"aq-pr-triaged" |
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Pull request overview
Adds documentation for the new InformationDisabled feedback group policy in the SSMS group policy article so administrators can understand and deploy it alongside existing feedback-related policies.
Changes:
- Updates the supported policies section intro text.
- Adds a new table row documenting the
InformationDisabledpolicy and its behavior.
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| | `SurveysDisabled` | Controls whether the user receives survey links in SSMS. If enabled, SSMS and the Visual Studio Installer don't display any product survey requests or links to surveys to the user. | | ||
| | `ProductFeedbackDisabled` | Controls whether the user can submit feedback through SSMS. If enabled, SSMS and the Visual Studio Installer don't allow users to submit feedback to Microsoft. Examples include, but aren't limited to reporting feedback, submitting suggestions, and providing feedback on features via a thumbs up/down control. | | ||
| | `InformationDisabled` | Controls whether the user receives informational announcements in SSMS. If enabled, SSMS and the Visual Studio Installer don't display informational announcements via info bars, such as general product announcements or notices. This policy applies to SSMS releases based on Visual Studio 2026 or later. | |
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Investigating. Thank you for the contribution. |
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Closing this one. Per the docs team, this change belongs in the private MicrosoftDocs/data-tools-pr repo (preferred for employee documentation changes), so I'll recreate it there. Thanks! |
Adds the new
InformationDisabledfeedback group policy to the Configure feedback group policies for SQL Server Management Studio article.This machine policy lets administrators disable informational announcements shown via info bars. It's read from the shared
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Feedback\InformationDisabledregistry value (same Feedback category asSurveysDisabled/ProductFeedbackDisabled). The matching VS ADMX/ADML entry is in microsoft/Visual-Studio-Administrative-Templates#186 and the VS docs row is in MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs#11382.For reviewers: the policy gating shipped in the Visual Studio 2026 (18.x) shell, so I noted "SSMS releases based on Visual Studio 2026 or later." Please confirm/adjust the exact minimum SSMS version that includes it, since I don't have the SSMS-to-VS version mapping.