Policy

Disable All ActiveX

This policy setting controls whether ActiveX controls are disabled. If you enable this policy setting, Office 2016 applications do not initialize ActiveX controls from non-trusted locations, and do not notify the user that the ActiveX controls are disabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can set the trust level for ActiveX controls in the Trust Center in the 2016 versions of Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. The default configuration does not load untrusted ActiveX controls, but uses the Message Bar to prompt users about the control, and they can then choose whether to run the control.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Security Settings
Policy ID 00d25095b0a0
Internal name L_DisableAllActiveX

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\common\security\disableallactivex (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\common\security\disableallactivex (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls whether ActiveX controls are disabled. If you enable this policy setting, Office 2016 applications do not initialize ActiveX controls from non-trusted locations, and do not notify the user that the ActiveX controls are disabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can set the trust level for ActiveX controls in the Trust Center in the 2016 versions of Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. The default configuration does not load untrusted ActiveX controls, but uses the Message Bar to prompt users about the control, and they can then choose whether to run the control.

Related policies

ActiveX Control InitializationAllow Basic Authentication prompts from network proxiesAllow file extensions for OLE embeddingAllow root or intermediate certificates as VBA trusted publishersAllow specified hosts to show Basic Authentication prompts to Office appsAllow VBA to load typelib references by path from untrusted intranet locationsAutomation Security