Prevent saving credentials for Basic Authentication policy
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User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Account Settings > E-mail
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting allows you to prevent Outlook from saving user credentials using Basic Authentication. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook will not save user credentials using Basic Authentication. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Outlook will allow the user to save credentials when using Basic Authentication against a server. These credentials are stored as generic and retrievable by any process running with that user's rights on the machine.

Internal name
L_PreventSavingCredentialsForBasicAuthenticationPolicy
Policy ID
96515c212f8e
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\rpc
Value name
disablebasicauthsavedcreds
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\rpc
Value name
disablebasicauthsavedcreds
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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