Outlook 2013 - Disable Apps for Office

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the "apps for office" button in Outlook 2013? (New email, Message ribbon tab, Apps for Office)

I have applied the 2 group policy settings available in the ADMX files (Block Apps for Office, Block the Office Store) and these are working perfectly for Word, Excel etc... however the option remains for Outlook.

Environment Details:
Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32bit
SP1 and latest patches
Windows 7 and Windows 8 workstation (Same behaviour)
Latest ADMX files downloaded and applied to central store in Active Directory

Thanks

February 18th, 2015 2:57am

Hi,

I'm marking the reply as answer as there has been no update for a couple of days.

If you come back to find it doesn't work for you, please reply to us and unmark the answer.

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Melon Chen

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March 2nd, 2015 1:37am

Hi Melon, thanks for the feedback on this, we've been having the same issue trying to remove the Apps for Office button. Could you by chance provide a link or direct me to any external materials where it states Outlook does not have any policies or registry data to disable Apps for Outlook.  Thanks. 

Regards

Pete


  • Edited by Hans_5416 13 hours 55 minutes ago
March 9th, 2015 11:14am

Hi Melon, thanks for the feedback on this, we've been having the same issue trying to remove the Apps for Office button. Could you by chance provide a link or direct me to any external materials where it states Outlook does not have any policies or registry data to disable Apps for Outlook.  Thanks. 

Regards

Pete


  • Edited by Hans_5416 Monday, March 09, 2015 5:44 PM
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March 9th, 2015 3:13pm

Thanks, this information was useful however not really an answer to problem.  Would be nice for there to be an option to disable this in Outlook like there is for Word and Excel.

March 16th, 2015 6:43pm

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