Federated search for help
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Help
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting allows you to determine the sources of content that Office users in your organization can access through Office Help (F1). If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, users who utilize Office Help see content from both Office and the Internet. If you disable this setting, Office users’ search results through Help are limited to Office content.

Internal name
L_federatedSearchForHelp
Policy ID
eaea154f5c52
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\helpviewer
Value name
enablefederatedhelpsearch
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\helpviewer
Value name
enablefederatedhelpsearch
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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