Publishing restrictions

The following items are restricted during publication. You can still create a shipping label for them, but the request will require additional Microsoft review.

The Partner Center enforces these publication restrictions. Publication restrictions ensure that partners cannot publish drivers that overwrite Microsoft class drivers or generic bus HWID strings. They also ensure that devices do not receive incorrect drivers due to generic third party or reused HWIDs.

Examples of these restrictions include, but are not limited to the list in the following table.

Type of restriction	Additional information
Invalid driver submission category types	UNCLASSIFIED
Invalid Architecture	ia64
HWIDs with no bus enumerator	N/A
Invalid bus enumerators	ActivCardBus CIRCLASS Hid\irdevice Irbus PS2_ MIDI PNP ACP IAN AVM STREAM DISPLAY
Classcode declarations	\CLASS \CC &
Two-part HWIDs	Enforced on PCI and HDAUDIO buses
Bluetooth HWIDs with service UUIDs and no vendor ID or product ID	N/A
Invalid PCI Vendor Codes	0000 FFFF
Missing device codes or product ID codes	Enforced on PCI and USB buses
Invalid HWID string starts	HID_DEVI SERIAL_M ISAPNP\PNP SERENUM\PNP PNP PNP BIOS\PNP ACPI\PNP
System reserved HWIDs	BIOS\PNP ACPI\PNP
Invalid HWIDs	DONTUSE SERIAL_MOUSE Root\circlass Hid\irdevice Storage\VolumeSnapshot Storage\Volume
Attestation signed drivers	Attestation signed drivers must target a test audience by setting one of the following criteria: CoDev Restricted Audience\Test Registry Key

For more information about the driver publishing workflow, see Windows 10 Driver Publishing Workflow.