Policy

Turn on privacy settings in Office Telemetry Agent

This policy setting configures Office Telemetry Agent to disguise, or obfuscate, certain file properties that are reported in telemetry data. If you enable this policy setting, Office Telemetry Agent obfuscates the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Office Telemetry Agent uploads telemetry data that shows the full file name, file path, and title of all Office documents.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Office 2016 / Telemetry Dashboard
Policy ID c1e6e640ada3
Internal name L_OfficeInventoryAgentFilemetadataObfuscation

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\osm\enablefileobfuscation (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\osm\enablefileobfuscation (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting configures Office Telemetry Agent to disguise, or obfuscate, certain file properties that are reported in telemetry data. If you enable this policy setting, Office Telemetry Agent obfuscates the file name, file path, and title of Office documents before uploading telemetry data to the shared folder. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Office Telemetry Agent uploads telemetry data that shows the full file name, file path, and title of all Office documents.

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