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sprazapati
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Jul 11, 2021

manage Microsoft Office with Group Policy

How to set author name in word & excel via AD or Group policy to our domain pc.

Kindly assist other alternative solution.

  • sprazapati Word has this logic where it checks for the below-mentioned reg key to populate the author field for any word doc. Now there are many ways to set this reg key, one can set it manually or create a .reg to file. If I am not wrong, the office team recently added one of the policies in their ADMX package to facilitate this but I would see a confirmation from one of the office folks.

     

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
    REG_SZ: UserName

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