SOLVED: How To Disable SHARE Button in Office 2016 Using a GPO
Note: GPO templates download here.
admx admin templates need to be copied to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
and the corresponding resource files (en-us) need to be copied to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-USIf you have Office 2016 and you want to block your staff from easily saving content in the cloud, you can disable the SHARE button using the following Group Policy Object (GPO):
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> “Office Product Name” -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable Commands > ENABLE and enter 26594
26594 does seem like a random number and it probably is, however, Microsoft has made it possible to disable nearly every feature by assigning nearly every button and short cut a number. You can get a list of those numbers from what Microsoft has cleverly named: “Office 2016 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers” which you can download directly from Microsoft HERE.
Note that you need to set each Office products rules separately; there is no global “turn off the SHARE button” GPO. That means you have to set:
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Word 2016 -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable Commands > ENABLE and enter 26594
and
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Excel 2016 -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable Commands > ENABLE and enter 26594
and
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable Commands > ENABLE and enter 26594
and..
You can download the codes for Microsoft Office 2013 HERE and Office 2010 HERE to figure out what the codes are for Office 2010 and 2013 products. The codes are different. For example you use code 18147 to disable the SHARE button in Word 2013.
