Policy

Use the Sensitivity feature in Office to apply sensitivity labels to PDFs

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Use the Sensitivity feature in Office to apply sensitivity labels to PDFs
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User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Microsoft Save As PDF and XPS add-ins
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting controls whether sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection are applied to PDFs created in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.​ If you enable this policy setting or don’t configure it, PDFs will inherit the sensitivity label and encryption from the source Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document. If you disable this policy setting, PDFs created in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint do not inherit their source file’s sensitivity labels and encryption. When the source file is encrypted, users who do not have the rights to remove protection cannot export to PDF. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. For more information about this setting, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2220953.

Internal name
L_PDFProtectionFromOffice
Policy ID
0fe0356cd572
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\fixedformat
Value name
disablepdfprotection
REG_DWORD
HKCU
0
HKCU
1
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fixedformat
Value name
disablepdfprotection
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
0
Disabled value
1

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