Even more so since the value is not even checked, it works also if it is left empty. You have to fix that in every existing user profile, lest everybody gets the requester again.Īdditionally, I think it is not a really good idea to store chunks of text including several newlines in the registry, it just blows it up and slows it down. Having a machine name inside keynames in user hives of registry makes it really a pita to change machine names (which is sometimes necessary, and which is freqently done when giving a pre-installed machine to a new user - and no, we are not using AD for The shortcomings of the concept "security by obscurity" should be widely known, so maybe one could see it as easter egg joke to put the product name "Office" Or wanted to exacerbate us admins' work by forcing us to do extra detective work. For me that looks as if somebody forgot something in a beta version, I really would like to know if that was necessary, as was to use a cryptic registry key name. Unfortunately, someone had the great idea to put the machine name in the registry key name.
With an empty REG_SZ value "8" was sufficient to suppress the requester. In my case, the existence of the registry key With comparing registry excerpts before and after manually accepting the requester, I found out more or less the same what you posted. I am rolling out Office Professional Plus 2016 (volume license). Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\PTWatson Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\General I have also ensured "Disableįirst Run Movie" and "Disable Office First Run on application boot" are enabled in the Office 2016 GPO If there an updated registry entry for the new prompt. This was successful with previous versions of CTR Office 365 ProPlus when the EULA was a "First Things First" pop-up.Īfter a recent CTR version update, users are being prompted with an "Office Is Almost Ready" EULA which is still present with the registry entry in place. We have been using the follow registry keys to auto-accept the EULA for our domain users, and avoid tutorial/welcome pop-ups.
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