Visio 2003-2010 Binary Drawings, Templates and Stencils

This policy setting allows you to determine whether users can open or save Visio files with the format specified by the title of this policy setting.

If you enable this policy setting, you can specify whether users can open or save files.

The options that can be selected are below. Note: Not all options may be available for this policy setting.

- Do not block: The file type will not be blocked.

- Save blocked: Saving of the file type will be blocked.

- Open/Save blocked: Both opening and saving of the file type will be blocked.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the file type will not be blocked.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

File block setting:


  1. Do not block
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\security\fileblock
    Value Namevisio2003files
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value0
  2. Save blocked
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\security\fileblock
    Value Namevisio2003files
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value1
  3. Open/Save blocked
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\security\fileblock
    Value Namevisio2003files
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value2


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