Our organization is under a requirement to configure text in Outlook that represents Internet and network paths in such a way that these must not be automatically turned into hyperlinks, i.e. verify "Internet and network path into hyperlinks" is not configured. Is there a Office 2010 domain policy that can enforce this setting?  I am only aware of a way to do this in individual user profiles.

Hi,

Do you have the Office 2010 Administrative Template files loaded? If so, we can find the GPO setting under:

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Outlook 2010\Outlook Options

Double click "Internet and network paths into hyperlinks" on the right pane and change the setting to Disabled.

In addition, we can also change the setting via modifying registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\outlook\options\autoformat

DWORD: pgrfafo_25_1

Value: 1 to enable; 0 to disable

Please note, both method only configure Outlook to turn on/off the "Internet and network path into hyperlinks" setting, users can manually change the setting back then.

Best Regards,

Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

Unless I am missing something, this solution is no longer valid, which leads me to... why was it removed?