Do not expand Contact Groups
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Policy overview

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User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Miscellaneous
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting controls whether Outlook users can expand Contact Groups when addressing e-mail messages. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook users cannot expand Contact Groups. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, when Outlook users add a Contact Group to the To, CC, or BCC fields of an e-mail message or other item, they can expand the Contact Group to see the e-mail addresses of everyone in the group.

Internal name
L_Disabledistributionlistexpansion
Policy ID
6370386a4720
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\options\mail
Value name
disabledlexpansion
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\options\mail
Value name
disabledlexpansion
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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