diff --git a/Foundation/include/Poco/Config.h b/Foundation/include/Poco/Config.h
index f10981eef..96e97bd57 100644
--- a/Foundation/include/Poco/Config.h
+++ b/Foundation/include/Poco/Config.h
@@ -174,6 +174,11 @@
 // #define POCO_LOG_DEBUG
 
 
+// Uncomment to disable the use of bundled OpenSSL binaries
+// (Windows only)
+// #define POCO_EXTERNAL_OPENSSL
+
+
 // Define to prevent changing the suffix for shared libraries
 // to "d.so", "d.dll", etc. for _DEBUG builds in Poco::SharedLibrary.
 // #define POCO_NO_SHARED_LIBRARY_DEBUG_SUFFIX
diff --git a/doc/00200-GettingStarted.page b/doc/00200-GettingStarted.page
index 78e572605..ac4beb499 100644
--- a/doc/00200-GettingStarted.page
+++ b/doc/00200-GettingStarted.page
@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@ necessary paths to the INCLUDE and LIB environment variables. You might also
 have to edit the project settings if the names of the OpenSSL libraries
 from your build differ from the names used in the project files.
 
+!!!NOTE:
+To disable internal automatic linking of supplied binaries in pre-generated
+POCO VS projects, define POCO_EXTERNAL_OPENSSL in your build environment.
+Alternatively, you can either rename your binaries, or edit the
+%POCO_BASE%\Crypto\include\Poco\Crypto\Crypto.h file if the names of the
+OpenSSL libraries from your build differ from the names used thereof
+(look for "#pragma comment" lines in Crypto.h).
+
 
 !ODBC