Policy

Trusted Location #12

This policy setting allows you to specify a folder as a trusted location from which to open 2016 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Visio files. Files in trusted locations bypass file validation, active content checks and Protected View. Macros and code in these files will execute without displaying warnings to the user. If you change or add a location make sure that the new location is secured, with only appropriate user permissions to add document/files. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify a trusted location (or folder) from which the 2016 Office application can open the files which run macros without warning. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the trusted location is not specified.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Excel 2016 / Excel Options / Security / Trust Center / Trusted Locations
Policy ID 0ef9cbfc4037
Internal name L_TrustedLoc12

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\security\trusted locations\location12\path
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\security\trusted locations\location12\date
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\security\trusted locations\location12\description
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\security\trusted locations\location12\allowsubfolders

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to specify a folder as a trusted location from which to open 2016 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Visio files. Files in trusted locations bypass file validation, active content checks and Protected View. Macros and code in these files will execute without displaying warnings to the user. If you change or add a location make sure that the new location is secured, with only appropriate user permissions to add document/files. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify a trusted location (or folder) from which the 2016 Office application can open the files which run macros without warning. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the trusted location is not specified.

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