Always require users to connect to verify permission
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

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

This policy setting controls whether users are required to connect to the Internet or a local network to have their licenses confirmed every time they attempt to open Excel workbooks, InfoPath forms or templates, Outlook e-mail messages, PowerPoint presentations, or Word documents that are protected by Information Rights Management (IRM). This policy is useful if you want to log the usage of files with restricted permissions on the server. If you enable this policy setting, users are required to connect to verify permissions. This policy setting will only affect protected files created on machines where the policy is enabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users are not required to connect to the network to verify permissions.

Internal name
L_Alwaysrequireuserstoconnecttoverifypermission
Policy ID
8ecfe5b3462d
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
Value name
requireconnection
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\drm
Value name
requireconnection
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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