Policy

Prevent clear signed message and attachment indexing

This policy setting allows you to turn off the indexing of the body and attachments of clear-text signed messages. The sender, subject line, and date will continue to be indexed and searchable. If you enable this policy setting, indexing of clear-text signed messages will be turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, clear-text signed messages will be indexed and searchable.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Outlook 2016 / Outlook Options / Preferences / Search Options
Policy ID 1e8a03bdc7a6
Internal name L_PreventClearSignedMessageAndAttachmentIndexing

Registry

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HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\windows\windows search\preferences\preventclearsignedmsgandattachmentindexing (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\windows\windows search\preferences\preventclearsignedmsgandattachmentindexing (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to turn off the indexing of the body and attachments of clear-text signed messages. The sender, subject line, and date will continue to be indexed and searchable. If you enable this policy setting, indexing of clear-text signed messages will be turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, clear-text signed messages will be indexed and searchable.

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