Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Outlook 2016 > Security > Security Form Settings > Attachment Security
Supported onWindows7

This policy setting controls which types of attachments (determined by file extension) Outlook prevents from being delivered. Outlook uses two levels of security to restrict user's access to files attached to e-mail messages or other items. Files with specific extensions can be categorized as Level 1 (users cannot view the file) or Level 2 (users can open the file after saving it to disk). Users can freely open files of types that are not categorized as Level 1 or Level 2. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the removal of file type extensions that Outlook classifies as Level 1 (that is, to be blocked from delivery) entering them in the text field provided separated by semicolons. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Outlook classifies a number of potentially harmful file types (such as those with .exe, .reg, and .vbs extensions) as Level 1 and blocks files with those extensions from being delivered. Important: This policy setting only applies if the "Outlook Security Mode" policy setting under "Microsoft Outlook 2016\Security\Security Form Settings" is configured to "Use Outlook Security Group Policy."

Internal name
L_Level1RemoveFilePolicy
Policy ID
8825c6933c93
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
Removed Extensions:
ID L_RemovedExtensions
text
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\security\fileextensionsremovelevel1
Type REG_SZ
None

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