Always expand groups in Office when restricting permission for documents
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Manage Restricted Permissions
Supported on
Windows7

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.

Internal name
L_AlwaysexpandgroupsinOfficewhenrestrictingpermissionfordocume
Policy ID
99358922a0c1
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\drm\autoexpanddls
Value name
autoexpanddlsenable
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\drm\autoexpanddls
Value name
autoexpanddlsenable
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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