Turn off Hierarchical Address Book department selection

This policy setting controls whether departments can be picked as recipients in the Hierarchical Address Book (HAB).

If you enable this policy setting, the tree control to pick departments as recipients is turned off in the HAB.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the tree control to pick departments as recipients is turned on in the HAB.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook
Value Name	disablepickingdepartment
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

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