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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...
FYI, I tested and got it working, but had to force the office apps to sync the latest policy using this method:
Policy service check-in activity is stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\CloudPolicy. Deleting this key and restarting the Office apps will trigger the policy service to check in the next time an Office app is launched.
Link:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-office-cloud-policy-service
Policy service check-in activity is stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\CloudPolicy. Deleting this key and restarting the Office apps will trigger the policy service to check in the next time an Office app is launched.
Link:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-office-cloud-policy-service
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Thank you for that. Just saw the last few posts and will myself give this a go today and see what happens over the weekend.
Thank you for that. Just saw the last few posts and will myself give this a go today and see what happens over the weekend.
- Hey,
Pushed out settings from Intune and still not showing up. how to force office app sync in intune? - There is a new office admx files u can download
The new version of office changed the name from ending meetings and appointment early to shorten meetings and appointments. Therefore the registry key has changed. If u wanna go with the local gpo then update the admx
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49030 Tuan-123 I now realise I am posting on an office cloud policy forum... hence the responses above was about M365. I may have to look for another forum 😞 however below is the local group policy that used work locally but stopped .
- What options do u have on the 2016 office? Is it called shorten meetings or end meeting... early?
- not registered to intune. 😞 can you explain a little more on the reg key update process?
- If those systems r connected/enrolled on intune you can push it out with the registry update. Or have them run the registey key update that u can send them if there are no other options
- @taun-123
I checked and noted this was already applied to our policies.... then realised this only takes affect for M365 apps for enterprise... we currently only have small amount of staff using M365 for enterprise. The majority of our office installs are OEM Office 2016 Home & Business locally installed, therefore I need the local AD policy to apply to these. 😞 back to the drawing board for me. - Tuan
That is awesome 🙂 thank you so much. I got mine working without removing the registry. First I have to make sure my Office is up to date and the "shorten meetings and appointment" is available under the Calendar option. Attached is the policy that i created for the Office 365 apps Enterprise version. It does take up to 90 mins or 24 hours.
