Solved Privacy and Security Settings

I'm testing the August Windows 11 update on our Windows 11 Enterprise machines and noticed that under Privacy & Security: Documents, Downloads folder, Music library, Pictures, Videos and File system are no longer off and greyed out. We had been using the following registry entries in our group policy:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\documentsLibrary
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\downloadsFolder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\musicLibrary
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\picturesLibrary
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\videosLibrary
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\broadFileSystemAccess

We set all of the Values to Deny

After the August update, the registry entries above still appear on the machines and are set to Deny but I can go into each of these and the toggle is on and a user can turn the setting off or on.

Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas on how to turn them off again?

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After further research, the issue we had above only effected our Dell laptops. Microsoft must have known about this issue because after testing the September Windows 11 updates the issue went away and the privacy settings are staying applied after the update.

Note: This has changed how I set up laptops from scratch until we move to 25H2. After I install the initial Windows 11 image, I have to log into the laptop to apply group policy. After I reboot, I can install the September Windows 11 updates and after logging into it again, the privacy settings are applying. If I don't do this they don't. Strange problem.....