Policy

Disable Office connections to social networks

This policy setting prevents users from connecting Office to social networks (including SharePoint), and prevents Office from displaying contacts and feeds from their social networks. If you enable this policy setting, users cannot connect Office to social networks. If you disable or you do not configure this policy setting, users can connect Office to social networks.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Outlook 2016 / Outlook Social Connector
Policy ID 81373dbf6e36
Internal name L_PreventSocialNetworkConnectivity

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\outlook\socialconnector\disablesocialnetworkconnectivity (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\outlook\socialconnector\disablesocialnetworkconnectivity (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting prevents users from connecting Office to social networks (including SharePoint), and prevents Office from displaying contacts and feeds from their social networks. If you enable this policy setting, users cannot connect Office to social networks. If you disable or you do not configure this policy setting, users can connect Office to social networks.

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Block Global Address List synchronizationBlock network activity synchronizationBlock social network contact synchronizationBlock specific social network providersDo not allow on-demand activity synchronizationDo not download contact photos from Active DirectoryDo not show social network info-bars