Policy

Federated search for help

This policy setting allows you to determine the sources of content that Office users in your organization can access through Office Help (F1). If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, users who utilize Office Help see content from both Office and the Internet. If you disable this setting, Office users’ search results through Help are limited to Office content.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Help
Policy ID eaea154f5c52
Internal name L_federatedSearchForHelp

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\helpviewer\enablefederatedhelpsearch (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\helpviewer\enablefederatedhelpsearch (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to determine the sources of content that Office users in your organization can access through Office Help (F1). If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, users who utilize Office Help see content from both Office and the Internet. If you disable this setting, Office users’ search results through Help are limited to Office content.