Hello,

Running Office 2013 64 and 32 bit, would like to enable online help without enabling all the online features, specifically downloading of the office templates. Currently when we enable all online content over 30 MB of templates are downloaded to the profile.  All settings need to be controlled via GPO.

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise x64

Office 2013 Pro Plus x86 and x64

Regards,

Dom

Hi,

Based on my test, we can not only online help without enabling all the online features. Please see the introuduce:

Group Policy setting name: Online content options. This Group Policy setting is located in the Group Policy Object Editor under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\(ADM\ADMX)\Microsoft Office 2013\ Tools | Options | General | Service Options \ Online Content.

• Description: This setting controls whether the Office 2013 Help system can download Help content from Office.com. You can choose one of three options for this setting:

  Never show online content or entry points. The Help system doesnt connect to Office.com to download content. This is the default setting if you suppress the Welcome to Office experience or if users select Dont make changes or Install Updates Only.

  Search only offline content whenever available. The Help system doesnt connect to Office.com to download content.

  Search online content whenever available. The Help system connects to Office.com for content when the computer is connected to the Internet.

• Impact: If you enable this setting and select Never show online content or entry points or Search only offline content whenever available, users cant access updated Help topics through the Help system and you cant get templates from Office.com.

• Guidelines: Most organizations enable this setting and select Search online content when available. This is the recommended configuration for this setting. But, organizations that have a highly restrictive security environment, or a security environment that restricts Internet access, typically enable this setting and select Never show online content or entry points.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179123.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Thus, I recommend you use Offline help.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Hi George,

Thank you for your reply, two items:

1. When enabling online content 50 MB of template data is downloaded to c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent.  Is it possible to prevent the download of this data?

2. The GPO: Online content options. This Group Policy setting is located in the Group Policy Object Editor under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\(ADM\ADMX)\Microsoft Office 2013\ Tools | Options | General | Service Options \ Online Content, does not contain the values specified above, it contains the following values:

- Do not allow Office to connect to the Internet

- All Office to connect to the Internet.

Any ideas why those are the only options available?

Thanks,

Dom