Policy

Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word

This policy setting allows you to remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word. This list appears when a user selects Present Online from the Share tab in Backstage view and in the ribbon in PowerPoint. If you enable this policy setting, Office Presentation Service is not shown as an option for presenting online. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can select Office Presentation Service to present their PowerPoint or Word file to other users online.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Present Online
Policy ID 70487fa47963
Internal name L_DisableDefaultService

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\broadcast\disabledefaultservice (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\broadcast\disabledefaultservice (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word. This list appears when a user selects Present Online from the Share tab in Backstage view and in the ribbon in PowerPoint. If you enable this policy setting, Office Presentation Service is not shown as an option for presenting online. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can select Office Presentation Service to present their PowerPoint or Word file to other users online.

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