Block Apps for Office

This policy setting allows you to prevent users from using apps for Office.

If you enable this policy setting, apps are blocked and all other policy settings in the Trusted Catalogs folder are ignored.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, apps are allowed. Other policy settings in the Trusted Catalogs folder determine which specific app sources are allowed.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	software\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\wef\trustedcatalogs
Value Name	disableallcatalogs
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

office15.admx

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