Disable / remove "Choose privacy settings for you device"

Question

I have an Azure VM scale set based on a Microsoft Windows 10 pro image.

Then I login the first time Im greeted with a "Choose privacy settings for you device"

I'm pretty sure I can turn it off via a regedit option. But I simplicity can not figure out which. Does anyone know how I avoid that screen image when I log on for the first time?

The link details the **DisablePrivacyExperience** - "Don't launch privacy settings experience on user logon": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/policy-csp-privacy — John Hanley, Sep 24 '21 at 06:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '21 at 13:23

You can disable it from Local Group Policy Editor.

Open local group policy editor
In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to the location below. Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\OOBE
In the right pane of OOBE, double click/tap on the Don't launch privacy settings experience on user logon policy to edit it.To Disable Privacy Settings Experience at Sign-in, Select Enabled, click/tap on OK, and apply.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 27 '21 at 07:11

I solved this by creating these four reg keys, which are then executed using a custom script extension:

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" -Name "PrivacyConsentStatus" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force 
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" -Name "SkipMachineOOBE" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force 
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" -Name "ProtectYourPC" -Value 3 -PropertyType DWORD -Force 
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE" -Name "SkipUserOOBE" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

Disable / remove "Choose privacy settings for you device"

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