Policy

Delete files from Office Document Cache

Microsoft Office

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Delete files from Office Document Cache
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Microsoft Office Document Cache
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting determines whether or not documents opened in Office are deleted from the Office Document Cache when they are closed. If you enable this policy setting documents are deleted from the Office Document Cache when they are closed. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, documents are not deleted from the Office Document Cache when they are closed. Note: This policy setting does not apply to documents in SharePoint Workspace. Documents in SharePoint Workspace will not be deleted from the Office Document cache when they are closed. Sharepoint Workspace will not work correctly if this Group Policy is enabled.

Internal name
L_DeleteFilesFromOfficeDocumentCache
Policy ID
b205c77f3cc9
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\fileio
Value name
disablelongtermcaching
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fileio
Value name
disablelongtermcaching
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.