Policy
Always expand groups in Office when restricting permission for documents
Microsoft Office
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
This policy setting controls whether group names automatically expand to display all the members of the group when selected in the Permissions dialog box. If you enable this policy setting, when users select a group name while applying Information Rights Management (IRM) permissions to Excel workbooks, InfoPath templates, Outlook e-mail messages, PowerPoint presentations, or Word documents in the Permissions dialog box, it will automatically expand to display all the members of the group. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, when users select a group name in the Permissions dialog box, the members of the group are not displayed.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\drm\autoexpanddls Value name autoexpanddlsenable | REG_DWORD | HKCU 1 | HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.