

When you enable the Allow Office to connect to the Internet setting, this affects other features in Office. You can set this to Not Configured or Enabled and then select the Allow Office to connect to the Internet online content option. Find these templates under Tools | Options | General | Service Options, Online Content. The Online Content Options policy setting is located under the Microsoft Office 2019, Office 2016, Office 2013 or Outlook for Office 365 administrative template. Your administrator will have to change the policy to change this setting. If the UseOnlineContent value is located under the Policies hive, that value may have been created through Group Policy. The x.0 placeholder represents your version of Office (16.0 = Office 2016, Office 2019, or Outlook for Office 365, 15.0 = Office 2013). HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\ x.0\Common\InternetĠ - Do not allow user to access Office resources on the Internet (check box is cleared and unavailable).ġ - Allows the user to opt in to access of Office resources on the Internet (check box is cleared).Ģ - (Default) Allows the user to access Office resources on the Internet (check box is selected). HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ x.0\Common\Internet Enter your Gmail email address in the box. B) The Welcome to Outlook wizard pops up. A) Open Outlook and click File > Add Account. However, the basic principles and steps should be similar to all versions of Outlook. The following set up example is showing Outlook 2016 - current at the time of writing. The UseOnlineContent setting is located in one of the following registry key: Setting up Outlook with Gmail using IMAP. If the Allow Office to connect to the Internet check box is unavailable, it is because the UseOnlineContent setting in the registry is set to the value 0.

Note If the Allow Office to connect to the Internet check box is unavailable, see the "More Information" section, below, for additional details about this setting. Note If the Let Office connect to online services from Microsoft to provide functionality that's relevant to your usage and preferences check box is unavailable, see the "More Information" section, below, for additional details about this setting.Ĭlick Privacy Options, and then select the Allow Office to connect to the Internet check box. Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 and Outlook for Office 365:Ĭlick Trust Center, and then click Trust Center Settings.Ĭlick Privacy Options, and then select the Let Office connect to online services from Microsoft to provide functionality that's relevant to your usage and preferences check box.Ĭlick OK two times to close the Outlook Options dialog box. To resolve this issue, enable theoption to allow Office to connect to online services by following these steps for your version of Outlook. This issue occurs if the Allow Office to connect to the Internet check box under Trust Center Privacy Options is not selected.

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