Turn off Hierarchical Address Book department selection
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Policy overview

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User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Account Settings > Exchange
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting controls whether departments can be picked as recipients in the Hierarchical Address Book (HAB). If you enable this policy setting, the tree control to pick departments as recipients is turned off in the HAB. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the tree control to pick departments as recipients is turned on in the HAB.

Internal name
L_TurnOffHierarchicalAddressBookDepartmentSelection
Policy ID
70596ce8e9ba
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
Value name
disablepickingdepartment
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook
Value name
disablepickingdepartment
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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