Prevent saving credentials for Basic Authentication policy
- Policy ID
- L_PreventSavingCredentialsForBasicAuthenticationPolicy
- 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 allows you to prevent Outlook from saving user credentials using Basic Authentication.
If you enable this policy setting, Outlook will not save user credentials using Basic Authentication.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Outlook will allow the user to save credentials when using Basic Authentication against a server. These credentials are stored as generic and retrievable by any process running with that user's rights on the machine.
Registry
UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
- disablebasicauthsavedcredsREG_DWORD