Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Outlook 2016 > Miscellaneous
Supported onWindows7

This policy is used to set the delay for sending people search requests from the Find a Contact box in Outlook and the Related People section that appears in the Backstage view (Info tab) of Office applications. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the delay in milliseconds between when the user stops (or pauses) typing in the search box and when the application sends a search request. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the default delay is 200 milliseconds (0.20 seconds).

Internal name
L_SpecifyDelayBeforeSendingPeopleSearchRequest
Policy ID
cac8f67401e6
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

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ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
in milliseconds
ID L_SpecifyDelayBeforeSendingPeopleSearchRequestSpinID
decimal
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\im\presencecontactfastsearchdelay
Type REG_DWORD
Range: 1 to 100000000

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