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'End appointments and meetings early' feature now broken in Office Cloud Policy Service
Originally the option to in Outlook to 'End appointments and meetings early' was a simple on/off option and was reflected in the registry with a DWORD 'endeventsearly' in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\M...
There are two section in the registry that control Outlook settings:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\
The first corelates to settings that are manually configured by the user, change the registry here and you'll see it updated in Outlook (after you close and re-open), but the user will be able to switch it back
The second corelates to settings that are configured via GPO, change the registry here and it'll update AND grey out the option in Outlook so it can't be changed,
So you had the right idea, you just weren't looking in quite the right place. 😄 Glad I could help! Now if MS would just update their management tools...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\
The first corelates to settings that are manually configured by the user, change the registry here and you'll see it updated in Outlook (after you close and re-open), but the user will be able to switch it back
The second corelates to settings that are configured via GPO, change the registry here and it'll update AND grey out the option in Outlook so it can't be changed,
So you had the right idea, you just weren't looking in quite the right place. 😄 Glad I could help! Now if MS would just update their management tools...
Joe Savage Well I want you to know you are my hero for the next week at least. We had just rolled this out company wide and made a big announcement about it, only to have it break a few weeks later. I spent hours with Microsoft support to no avail and you just solved it for me.
Thank you for explaining the method behind your troubleshooting! This is the first time I have bothered to post, but this was too helpful to not say thank you.