Policy

Allow Map Charts to send geographic data to Bing

This policy setting controls whether Map Charts can send geographic data to Bing. For more information about Map Charts, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2194000. If you enable this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, that data will be sent to Bing and the map chart will be updated to include any new locations. If you disable this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, the geographic data won’t be sent to Bing and the map chart won’t be updated to include any new locations. Also, the user will see a message letting them know that their map chart can’t be created. If you don’t configure this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, that data will be sent to Bing and the map chart will be updated to include any new locations. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Graph settings
Policy ID b7907b80a62d
Internal name L_MapChartITAdminOptIn

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\charting\aremapchartsenabled (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\charting\aremapchartsenabled (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls whether Map Charts can send geographic data to Bing. For more information about Map Charts, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2194000. If you enable this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, that data will be sent to Bing and the map chart will be updated to include any new locations. If you disable this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, the geographic data won’t be sent to Bing and the map chart won’t be updated to include any new locations. Also, the user will see a message letting them know that their map chart can’t be created. If you don’t configure this policy setting, when a user adds geographic data to a new or existing map chart, that data will be sent to Bing and the map chart will be updated to include any new locations. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

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