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 HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook
Value Namedisablepickingdepartment
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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