You may want to start with the general Office settings and then move to the policies for each application. There are obviously a lot of policies and settings here to review. You’ll also find folders for each of the specific Office applications–Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word, and Skype ( Figure F). Here, you’ll find a folder for Microsoft Office for controlling general Office settings. Here, you can control certain licensing options, manage various security settings, and enable automatic updates ( Figure E).įor user-specific settings, go to User Configuration | Administrative Templates.
For machine-specific settings, go to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Microsoft Office (2016 or 2013). You’ll find them in two different locations. The Office templates will automatically load and be available. Next, open your Group Policy Editor or Management Console. Copy the ADML files to the same subfolder under PolicyDefinitions ( Figure D). Open your specific language subfolder for the files you extracted. The ADML files are stored in the specific subfolder for your language (e.g., en-US). Copy the extracted Office ADMX files to this folder ( Figure C). On your computer, the Group Policy templates are stored at C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions. SEE: 30 things you should never do in Microsoft Office (free PDF) (TechRepublic) I’ll explain the option for storing the templates locally.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD TEMPLATES FROM MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013 HOW TO
The Microsoft Support article on How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows explains the Central Store option.
If you use a Central Store for Group Policy, the steps are different than if you use a single computer or a handful of computers with locally stored templates. Next, you need to copy the ADMX files and the ADML language files to the appropriate folder or container for your Group Policy administration.