Prevent Office 365 E-mail accounts from being configured within a simplified Interface
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Account Settings > E-mail
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting determines whether an Office 365 E-mail account when being configured in Outlook, can use a simplified dialog that can greatly accelerate the initial account creation. If you enable this policy setting, users will configure their Office 365 accounts using the Account Wizard, as they do, for all other account types.

Internal name
L_DisableOffice365SimplifiedAccountCreation
Policy ID
e22bb32dd53b
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\setup
Value name
disableoffice365simplifiedaccountcreation
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\setup
Value name
disableoffice365simplifiedaccountcreation
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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