Disable Office connections to social networks
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Outlook Social Connector
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting prevents users from connecting Office to social networks (including SharePoint), and prevents Office from displaying contacts and feeds from their social networks. If you enable this policy setting, users cannot connect Office to social networks. If you disable or you do not configure this policy setting, users can connect Office to social networks.

Internal name
L_PreventSocialNetworkConnectivity
Policy ID
81373dbf6e36
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\outlook\socialconnector
Value name
disablesocialnetworkconnectivity
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\outlook\socialconnector
Value name
disablesocialnetworkconnectivity
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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