Group Policy not working for Extensions v1.99.2

[ianseanfraser]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version: 1.99.2
• OS Version: Windows 11 24H2 / 23H2

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add and Edit GPO template and add a custom ExtensionGalleryServiceURL
2. Restart VSCode,
3. Open Dev Tools / Network Tab move window aside
4. Search for an extension in vscode (just hit return in the Search Extensions field)
5. Click on Name extensionquery in developer tools
6. Confirm Request URL in developer tools

Issue 1:
Setting the Extension Repo URL not working.
Checking in Dev mode / Network tab it is reaching out to the URL defined in Product,json. If i change the URL in Product.json it changes in VSCode, but If I use GPO to override, nothing is changing.

Issue 2:
Setting preferred Extension in GPO (using the default vscode repo to test not a custom one) does nothing - all extension still appear. My format is:

publisher.extension

ms-python.python
esbenp.prettier-vscode

[ianseanfraser]

Can anyone in Engineering acknowledge this as a bug please?

[ianseanfraser]

Anything from engineering please?

[sandy081]

ExtensionGalleryServiceURL

This is a temporary policy and is not supported for all. This will be removed soon.