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This policy is used to manage Windows Hello for Business biometric settings, including biometric sign-in, facial anti-spoofing, and Enhanced Sign-in Security.

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Allows users to use Windows Hello for Business biometric gestures, such as face and fingerprints, as an alternative to the PIN gesture. Disabling this policy prevents biometric gestures on the device for all account types.

Facial Features Use Enhanced Anti Spoofing

Requires enhanced anti-spoofing for Windows Hello face authentication. Devices that don't support enhanced anti-spoofing can't use Windows Hello face authentication when this setting is enabled.

Controls Enhanced Sign-in Security on systems with capable software and hardware. ESS isolates biometric template data and matching operations to trusted hardware or specified memory regions.

Enabling Use Biometrics allows face and fingerprint authentication as alternatives to PIN for Windows Hello for Business.

Enhanced Anti Spoofing adds an extra layer of security for facial recognition but requires compatible hardware. Devices without support will fall back to other authentication methods.

Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) requires Windows 11 22H2 or later and compatible biometric hardware. It provides hardware-level isolation of biometric data for stronger protection against spoofing and data theft.

- Enabling Use Biometrics allows face and fingerprint authentication as alternatives to PIN for Windows Hello for Business.
- Enhanced Anti Spoofing adds an extra layer of security for facial recognition but requires compatible hardware. Devices without support will fall back to other authentication methods.
- Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) requires Windows 11 22H2 or later and compatible biometric hardware. It provides hardware-level isolation of biometric data for stronger protection against spoofing and data theft.

Windows Biometrics Policy

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Supported Platforms	Windows
Minimum System Requirements	Windows 10+
Supported Device Ownership	Company-owned, BYOD
Reference	Microsoft Documentation

Field Name	`useBiometrics`
Type	Boolean
Default	`false`
Minimum System Requirements	Windows 10+

Value	Description
`true`	Biometric sign-in is enabled
`false`	Biometric sign-in is disabled

Field Name	`facialFeaturesUseEnhancedAntiSpoofing`
Type	Boolean
Default	`false`
Minimum System Requirements	Windows 10+

Value	Description
`true`	Enhanced anti-spoofing is required for face authentication
`false`	Enhanced anti-spoofing is not required

Windows Biometrics Policy

Overview

Policy Fields

Use Biometrics

Facial Features Use Enhanced Anti Spoofing

Enable ESS with Supported Peripherals

Notes

Field Name	`enableESSwithSupportedPeripherals`
Type	Integer
Default	`1` (Enabled)
Minimum System Requirements	Windows 11 22H2+

Value	Label	Description
`0`	Disabled	Enhanced Sign-in Security is disabled
`1`	Enabled	Enhanced Sign-in Security is enabled