Policy
Prevent saving credentials for Basic Authentication policy
Microsoft Office
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
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.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\rpc Value name disablebasicauthsavedcreds | REG_DWORD | HKCU 1 | HKCU 0 |
Registry location
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\rpc
Value name
disablebasicauthsavedcreds
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.