Office Protected View

[Natestack]

Hi All,

Deploying office via App volumes question can you turn off protected view in Word, Excel etc ??

Has anyone done this in UEM ?

Attached what I want turned off

Enable/Disable Protected View in Office 2016 Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Thanks

[QCBenPetersen]

This would be interesting to hear the answer.  I had to have the Employee go in and disable it.  The settings held, but I would be very interested in this solution.

[DEMdev · Accepted solution]

Hi Natestack,

These settings seem to be saved under the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\version\application\Security\ProtectedView registry key (where version is 14.0, 16.0, etc, and application is Word, Excel, etc.)

Note that I only did I quick registry check. Testing whether this actually works is left as an exercise to the reader 🙂

If it does indeed work, you could apply this configuration with UEM as a predefined setting in Personalization, or via Registry Settings on the User Environment tab.

[Natestack]

Hi UEMdev,

So found this issue and we currently getting around this using the

User Environment

Registry settings

Repeat the line with Excel, Word, Outlook etc

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Security\ProtectedView]

"DisableInternetFilesInPV"=dword:00000001

"DisableAttachmentsInPV"=dword:00000001

"DisableUnsafeLocationsInPV"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Security\ProtectedView]

"DisableInternetFilesInPV"=dword:00000001

"DisableAttachmentsInPV"=dword:00000001

"DisableUnsafeLocationsInPV"=dword:00000001