Prevent Outlook from interacting with the account settings detection service

Policy ID
DisableAccountSettingsDetectionService
Scope
User Configuration
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
Source
Microsoft 365 Apps / Office Administrative Templates (version 5568.1000)
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 › Account Settings › E-mail

Description

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.

Registry

UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
  • disableaccountsettingsdetectionserviceREG_DWORD

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