Prevent Outlook from interacting with the account settings detection service
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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 Outlook can interact with the account settings detection service to gather information about a user's account settings. If you enable this policy setting, users will need to manually configure their account settings.

Internal name
DisableAccountSettingsDetectionService
Policy ID
6a0bee217b24
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
disableaccountsettingsdetectionservice
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\setup
Value name
disableaccountsettingsdetectionservice
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.