Policy

Turn off presence integration

This policy setting allows you to turn off instant messaging (IM) presence integration for Microsoft Office applications. If you enable this policy, setting IM presence icons will not be displayed and presence integration will be turned off for Office applications. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, IM presence icons will be displayed and presence integration will be turned on for Office applications.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Contact Card
Policy ID 3197134c5b99
Internal name L_TurnOffPresenceIntegration

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\im\turnoffpresenceintegration (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\im\turnoffpresenceintegration (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to turn off instant messaging (IM) presence integration for Microsoft Office applications. If you enable this policy, setting IM presence icons will not be displayed and presence integration will be turned off for Office applications. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, IM presence icons will be displayed and presence integration will be turned on for Office applications.

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