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Page Settings Visibility

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  • Applies to:
    HoloLens 2

One of the manageable features for HoloLens devices is using the Settings/PageVisibilityList policy to restrict the pages seen within the Settings app. PageVisibilityList is a policy that allows IT Admins to either prevent specific pages in the System Settings app from being visible or accessible, or to do so for all pages except those specified.

Note

This feature is only available in Windows Holographic, version 20H2 or higher for HoloLens 2 devices. Please ensure devices you intend to use this for are updated.

Examples

Pages are identified by a shortened version of the published URIs, which is the URI minus the "ms-settings:" prefix.

The following example illustrates a policy that would allow access only to the about and bluetooth pages, which have URI "network-wifi" and "bluetooth" respectively:

  • showonly:network-wifi;network-proxy;bluetooth

The following example illustrates a policy that would hide the OS Reset page:

  • hide:reset

Deploying this policy via Intune

These are the configuration values that will be supplied to Intune:

  • Name: An admin preferred display name for the profile.
  • OMA-URI: The fully qualified URI of the setting page including its scope. The examples on this page are using the ./Device scope.
  • Value: A string value that indicates whether to hide or show only the specified pages. Possible values are hide:<pagename> and showonly:<pagename>.

Multiple pages can be specified by separating them with a semicolon, and a listing of common pages can be found below.

  1. Create a Custom policy.
  2. When setting the OMA-URI enter the fully scoped URI. For example: ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Settings/PageVisibilityList
  3. When selecting the data pick choose: String
  4. When specifying Value use the guidance above. For example: showonly:network-wifi;network-proxy;bluetooth or hide:reset

Important

Make sure to assign the custom device configuration to a group the device is intended to be in. If this step is not performed, the policy will be pushed but won't be applied.

See HoloLens MDM configuration for more information on Intune groups and device configurations.

Deploying this policy via a Provisioning Package

These are the configuration values that will be specified in Windows Configuration Designer:

Value: A string value that indicates whether to hide or show only the specified pages. Possible values are hide:<pagename> and showonly:<pagename>. Multiple pages can be specified by separating them with a semicolon, and a listing of common pages can be found below.

  1. While creating your package in Windows Configuration Designer navigate to Policies > Settings > PageVisibilityList
  2. Enter the string: showonly:network-wifi;network-proxy;bluetooth
  3. Export your Provisioning Package.
  4. Apply the package to your device. For full details on how to create and apply a provisioning package visit the HoloLens provisioning page.

Regardless of the method chosen, your device should now receive the changes and users are presented with the following Settings App.

Screenshot of active hours being modified in the Settings app.

To configure the Settings app pages to show or hide your own selection of pages, take a look at the Settings URIs available on HoloLens.

Settings URIs

HoloLens devices and Windows 10 devices have a different selection of pages within the Settings app. The following URIs are specific to HoloLens 2. Please refer to the Windows Settings App URIs for non-HoloLens specific URIs.

Note

Use the "ms-settings:" prefix when looking to launch Settings directly from your application.

Accounts

Settings page URI
Access work or school workplace
Email & accounts mailandaccounts
Other Users otherusers
Sign In Options signinoptions
signinoptions-launchirisenrollment
signinoptions-launchpinenrollment
Your Info yourinfo

Apps

Settings page URI
Apps & features 2 appsfeatures
Apps & features > Advanced Options 2 appsfeatures-app
Apps & features > Offline Maps 2 maps-maps
Apps & features > Offline Maps > Download maps 2 maps-downloadmaps
App Update appupdate

Devices

Settings page URI
Bluetooth bluetooth
connecteddevices
Mouse 2 mouse
USB 2 usb

Privacy

Settings page URI
Account Info privacy-accountinfo
App Diagnostics privacy-appdiagnostics
Background Apps privacy-backgroundapps
Calendar privacy-calendar
Call History privacy-callhistory
Camera privacy-webcam
Contacts privacy-contacts
Diagnostics & Feedback privacy-feedback
Documents privacy-documents
Email privacy-email
Environment privacy-holographic-environment
EyeTracker privacy-eyetracker
File system privacy-broadfilesystemaccess
General 2 privacy-general
Ink & typing personalization 2 privacy-speechtyping
Location privacy-location
Messaging privacy-messaging
Microphone privacy-microphone
Motion 2 privacy-motion
Notifications privacy-notifications
Other devices privacy-customdevices
Pictures privacy-pictures
Radios privacy-radios
Screenshot borders 2 privacy-graphicsCaptureWithoutBorder
Screenshots and apps 2 privacy-graphicsCaptureProgrammatic
Speech privacy-speech
Tasks privacy-tasks
User movements privacy-backgroundspatialperception
Videos privacy-videos
Voice Activation privacy-voiceactivation

Network & Internet

Settings page URI
Airplane Mode 2 network-airplanemode
Proxy network-proxy
VPN network-vpn
Wi-Fi network-wifi
network-wifisettings
network-status
wifi-provisioning

System

Settings page URI
Battery 2 batterysaver
Battery 2 batterysaver-settings
Colors colors
personalization-colors
Holograms 2 holograms
Calibration 2 calibration
Notifications & actions notifications
Power & Sleep powerandsleep
powersleep
Shared Experiences crossdevice
Sound 2 sound
Sound > App volume and device preference 2 apps-volume
Sound > Manage sound devices 2 sound-devices
Start gestures start-gesture
Storage storagesense
Storage > Configure Storage Sense 2 storagepolicies

Time & Language

Settings page URI
Date & time 2 dateandtime
Keyboard 2 keyboard
Language 2 language
Language 2 regionlanguage-languageoptions
Language regionlanguage
regionlanguage-adddisplaylanguage
regionlanguage-setdisplaylanguage
Region regionformatting

Update & Security

Settings page URI
Advanced Options windowsupdate-options
Certificates certificates
For developers developers
Reset & Recovery 2 reset
Troubleshoot 3 troubleshoothololens
Windows Insider Program windowsinsider
windowsinsider-optin
Windows Update windowsupdate
windowsupdate-activehours
windowsupdate-history
windowsupdate-optionalupdates
1windowsupdate-options
1windowsupdate-restartoptions
Windows Update - Checks for updates windowsupdate-action

  • 1 - For versions prior to Windows Holographic, version 21H1, the following two URIs don't actually take you to the Advanced options or Options pages; they only block or show the main Windows Update page.

    • windowsupdate-options
    • windowsupdate-restartoptions

  • 2 - Available in Windows Holographic 21H1 or higher.

  • 3 - Available in Windows Insider builds only.

For a full list of Windows 10 Settings URIs, visit the launch settings documentation.