Policy

Turn off IRM protection on XPS Export for Word

This policy controls the default IRM protection setting when exporting Word documents to XPS files. Enabling this policy setting will turn off IRM protection when exporting to XPS, if not explicitly set by users through the Export Options dialog. If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, the default IRM protection setting for XPS export is based on previous IRM export selection.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Word Options / Security
Policy ID bf70609cbffb
Internal name L_DisableIRMOnXPSExport

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\security\disableirmonxpsexport (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\security\disableirmonxpsexport (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy controls the default IRM protection setting when exporting Word documents to XPS files. Enabling this policy setting will turn off IRM protection when exporting to XPS, if not explicitly set by users through the Export Options dialog. If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, the default IRM protection setting for XPS export is based on previous IRM export selection.

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