Thursday 11 January 2018

Office 2016 for MAC disable online Office365 Add-Ins and Online Popups

If you have Office for MAC 2016 Volume License or Perpetual License here is how to disable network connections to Office 365 Add-Ins.  Steps in this post will stop the login popups trying to connect to officeclient.microsoft.com when starting up Word, Excel or PowerPoint.


**ONLY PERFORM THESE STEP ONCE YOU HAVE ACTIVATED / REGISTERED THE PRODUCT.   DISABLING THE POP UP WILL STOP THE ACTIVATION PROCESS.  IF YOU FORGET JUST SET INTEGER VALUE BACK TO 2 FROM 0.** 

Disable Add-Ins:
defaults write com.microsoft.Word UseOnlineContent -integer 0
defaults write com.microsoft.Excel UseOnlineContent -integer 0
defaults write com.microsoft.Powerpoint UseOnlineContent -integer 0

Disable User Telemetry:
defaults write com.microsoft.Word SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Excel SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Powerpoint SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.onenote.mac SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.autoupdate2 SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2 SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE

Disable Crash Reports:
defaults write com.microsoft.errorreporting IsAttachFilesEnabled -bool FALSE

Enable Crash Reports with Disabled User Telemetry (optional):
defaults write com.microsoft.errorreporting IsMerpEnabled -bool TRUE

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