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articles/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection.md

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description: How to set up screen capture protection for Azure Virtual Desktop.
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author: femila
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 01/03/2023
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ms.date: 01/24/2023
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ms.author: femila
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ms.service: virtual-desktop
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Screen capture protection prevents sensitive information from being captured on the client endpoints. When you enable this feature, remote content will be automatically blocked or hidden in screenshots and screen shares. Also, the Remote Desktop client will hide content from malicious software that may be capturing the screen.
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In Windows 11, version 22H2 or later, you can enable screen capture protection on session host VMs as well as remote clients. Protection on session host VMs works just like protection for remote clients.
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## Prerequisites
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Screen capture protection is configured on the session host level and enforced on the client. Only clients that support this feature can connect to the remote session.
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You must connect to Azure Virtual Desktop with one of the following clients to use support screen capture protection:
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- The Windows Desktop client supports screen capture protection for full desktops only.
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- The Windows Desktop client supports screen capture protection for full desktops.
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- The macOS client (version 10.7.0 or later) supports screen capture protection for both RemoteApps and full desktops.
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- The Windows Desktop client supports screen capture protection for RemoteApps in VMs running Windows 11, Version 22H2 or later.
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## Configure screen capture protection
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> You can also install administrative templates to the group policy Central Store in your Active Directory domain.
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> For more information, see [How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows](/troubleshoot/windows-client/group-policy/create-and-manage-central-store).
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5. Finally, open the **"Enable screen capture protection"** policy and set it to **"Enabled"**.
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5. Open the **"Enable screen capture protection"** policy and set it to **"Enabled"**.
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6. To configure screen capture for client and server, set the **"Enable screen capture protection"** policy to **"Block Screen capture on client and server"**. By default, the policy will be set to **"Block Screen capture on client"**.
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>[!NOTE]
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>You can only use screen capture protection on session host VMs that use Windows 11, version 22H2 or later.
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## Limitations and known issues
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