Policy
Prevent Outlook from interacting with the account settings detection service
This policy setting determines whether Outlook can interact with the account settings detection service to gather information about a user's account settings. If you enable this policy setting, users will need to manually configure their account settings.
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Outlook 2016 / Account Settings / E-mail
Policy ID
6a0bee217b24 Internal name
DisableAccountSettingsDetectionService Registry
Copy registry mappings
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\setup\disableaccountsettingsdetectionservice (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\setup\disableaccountsettingsdetectionservice (disabled) = 0Policy notes
This policy setting determines whether Outlook can interact with the account settings detection service to gather information about a user's account settings. If you enable this policy setting, users will need to manually configure their account settings.