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Remove Sign In box from Office apps

Method 1: You can use the Registry Editor to remove Office Sign In Option from Office 2016.
Here are the steps to follow:
1. On your computer, notebook or laptop go to your Start Screen.
2. From there press “Win + R” dedicated keyboard keys.
3. The Run box will be displayed.
4. There enter “regedit” in order to run Registry Editor.

5. on Registry go to path “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\SignIn”.
6. Then, go to the right panel of Registry and right click on a blank space.
7. Select “New” and pick “DWORD Value”.
8. Name this new value “SignInOptions”.
9. Right click on the new key and set its value to 3.

10. Close Registry Editor and Reboot your Windows 7, open an Office App to check if it works.

Method 2: You can use the Group Policy to remove Office Sign In Option from Office 2016.

Here are the steps to follow:
1. Download the Office 2016 Administrative Template files and install it.
After self-extracting, we can get a folder and open the admx folder inside, where you can see some language-specific folders and Office application specific admx files.

Copy the ADMX files to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
Copy the adml file under the corresponding language file to the corresponding language folder in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions

2.Press Windows+R to open Run>type gpedit.msc > hit Enter to launch the Group Policy Editor

3.Go to this path: Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous

4. You should now see the option ‘Block signing into Office‘ > double click on it
Select ‘None allowed’ to disable the sign-in option.


5. Reboot your Windows 7, open an Office App to check if it works.

Note: Blocking signing in Office may affect the use of the Office cloud service.

Source: Remove Sign In box from Office apps

Privacy, Security, Software, sysadmin

Preferences — Firefox Source Docs documentation

Preferences

Telemetry behaviour is controlled through the mozconfig defines and preferences listed here.

mozconfig Defines

MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING

When Defined (which it is for official builds):

  • If RELEASE_OR_BETA is not defined, defines MOZ_TELEMETRY_ON_BY_DEFAULT

When Not Defined:

  • If datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled is locked, we print a message in the Privacy settings that you cannot turn on data submission and disabled the checkbox so you don’t try.
  • Android: hides the data submission UI to prevent users from thinking they can turn it on
  • Disables Telemetry from being sent (due to Telemetry::IsOfficialTelemetry)

MOZ_TELEMETRY_ON_BY_DEFAULT

When Defined:

  • Android: enables toolkit.telemetry.enabled

MOZ_SERVICES_HEALTHREPORT

When Defined (which it is on most platforms):

  • Sets datareporting.healthreport.{infoURL|uploadEnabled} in modules/libpref/init/all.js.

MOZ_DATA_REPORTING

When Defined (which it is when MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING, MOZ_SERVICES_HEALTHREPORT, or MOZ_CRASHREPORTER is defined (so, on most platforms, but not typically on developer builds)):

  • Enables app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled

When Not Defined:

  • Disables app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled
  • Removes the Data Collection Preferences UI in privacy.xhtml

MOZILLA_OFFICIAL

When Not Defined (defined on our own external builds and builds from several Linux distros, but not typically on defeloper builds):

  • Disables Telemetry from being sent (due to Telemetry::IsOfficialTelemetry)

MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL

When not release or beta:

  • If MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING is also defined, defines MOZ_TELEMETRY_ON_BY_DEFAULT

When beta:

  • If toolkit.telemetry.enabled is otherwise unset at startup, toolkit.telemetry.enabled is defaulted to true (this is irrespective of MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING)

When nightly or aurora or beta or default:

  • Desktop: Locks toolkit.telemetry.enabled to true. All other values for MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL on Desktop locks toolkit.telemetry.enabled to false.
  • Desktop: Defaults Telemetry::CanRecordExtended (and, thus Telemetry::CanRecordReleaseData) to true. All other values of MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL on Desktop defaults these to false.

DEBUG

When Defined:

  • Disables Telemetry from being sent (due to Telemetry::IsOfficialTelemetry)

In Short:

For builds downloaded from mozilla.com MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING is defined, MOZ_TELEMETRY_ON_BY_DEFAULT is on if you downloaded Nightly or Developer Edition, MOZ_SERVICES_HEALTHREPORT is defined, MOZ_DATA_REPORTING is defined, MOZILLA_OFFICIAL is defined, MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL is set to the channel you downloaded, and DEBUG is false. This means Telemetry is, by default, collecting some amount of information and is sending it to Mozilla.

For builds you make yourself with a blank mozconfig, MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL is set to default and everything else is undefined. This means Telemetry is, by default, collecting an extended amount of information but isn’t sending it anywhere.

Preferences

toolkit.telemetry.unified

This controls whether unified behavior is enabled. If true:

  • Telemetry is always enabled and recording base data.
  • Telemetry will send additional main pings.

It defaults to true, but is false on Android (Fennec) builds.

toolkit.telemetry.enabled

If unified is off, this controls whether the Telemetry module is enabled. It can be set or unset via the Preferences dialog in Firefox for Android (Fennec). If unified is on, this is locked to true if MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL is nightly or aurora or beta or default (which is the default value of MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL for developer builds). Otherwise it is locked to false. This controls a diminishing number of things and is intended to be deprecated, and then removed.

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled

If unified is true, this controls whether we send Telemetry data. If unified is false, we don’t use this value.

toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled

Allow pings to be archived locally. This can only be enabled if unified is on.

toolkit.telemetry.server

The server Telemetry pings are sent to. Change requires restart.

toolkit.telemetry.log.level

This sets the Telemetry logging verbosity per Log.jsm. The available levels, in descending order of verbosity, are Trace, Debug, Config, Info, Warn, Error and Fatal with the default being Warn.

By default logging goes only the console service.

toolkit.telemetry.log.dump

Sets whether to dump Telemetry log messages to stdout too.

toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled

Allow the shutdown ping to be sent when the browser shuts down, from the second browsing session on, instead of the next restart, using the ping sender.

toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabledFirstSession

Allow the shutdown ping to be sent using the ping sender from the first browsing session.

toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled

Allow a duplicate of the main shutdown ping from the first browsing session to be sent as a separate first-shutdown ping.

toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled

Enable the “new-profile” ping on new profiles.

toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.delay

Controls the delay after which the “new-profile” ping is sent on new profiles.

toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled

Enable the “update” ping on browser updates.

toolkit.telemetry.maxEventSummaryKeys

Set the maximum number of keys per process of the Event Summary keyed scalars. Default is 500. Change requires restart.

toolkit.telemetry.eventping.enabled

Whether the “event” ping is enabled. Default is true except for GeckoView where it defaults to false. Change requires restart.

toolkit.telemetry.eventping.eventLimit

The maximum number of event records permitted in the “event” ping. Default is 1000.

toolkit.telemetry.eventping.minimumFrequency

The minimum frequency at which an “event” ping will be sent. Default is 60 (minutes).

toolkit.telemetry.eventping.maximumFrequency

The maximum frequency at which an “event” ping will be sent. Default is 10 (minutes).

toolkit.telemetry.ecosystemtelemetry.enabled

Whether Ecosystem Telemetry is enabled. Default is false. Change requires restart.

toolkit.telemetry.overrideUpdateChannel

Override the channel value that is reported via Telemetry. This is useful for distinguishing different types of builds that otherwise still report as the same update channel.

toolkit.telemetry.ipcBatchTimeout

How long, in milliseconds, we batch accumulations from child processes before sending them to the parent process. Default is 2000 (milliseconds).

toolkit.telemetry.pioneerId

If a user has opted into the Pioneer program, this will contain their Pioneer ID.

toolkit.telemetry.prioping.enabled

Whether the “prio” ping is enabled. Defaults to true. Change requires restart.

toolkit.telemetry.prioping.dataLimit

The number of encoded prio payloads which triggers an immediate “prio” ping with reason “max”. Default is 10 payloads.

Data-choices notification

toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun

This preference is not present until the first run. After, its value is set to false. This is used to show the infobar with a more aggressive timeout if it wasn’t shown yet.

datareporting.policy.firstRunURL

If set, a browser tab will be opened on first run instead of the infobar.

datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled

This is the data submission master kill switch. If disabled, no policy is shown or upload takes place, ever.

datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyNotifiedTime

Records the date user was shown the policy. This preference is also used on Android.

datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyAcceptedVersion

Records the version of the policy notified to the user. This preference is also used on Android.

datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyBypassNotification

Used in tests, it allows to skip the notification check.

datareporting.policy.currentPolicyVersion

Stores the current policy version, overrides the default value defined in TelemetryReportingPolicy.jsm.

datareporting.policy.minimumPolicyVersion

The minimum policy version that is accepted for the current policy. This can be set per channel.

datareporting.policy.minimumPolicyVersion.channel-NAME

This is the only channel-specific version that we currently use for the minimum policy version.

GeckoView

toolkit.telemetry.geckoview.streaming

Whether the GeckoView mode we’re running in is the variety that uses the GeckoView Streaming Telemetry API or not. Defaults to false.

toolkit.telemetry.geckoview.batchDurationMS

The duration in milliseconds over which GeckoView Streaming Telemetry will batch accumulations before passing it on to its delegate. Defaults to 5000.

toolkit.telemetry.geckoview.maxBatchStalenessMS

The maximum time (in milliseconds) between flushes of the GeckoView Streaming Telemetry batch to its delegate. Defaults to 60000.

Testing

The following prefs are for testing purpose only.

toolkit.telemetry.initDelay

Delay before initializing telemetry (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.minSubsessionLength

Minimum length of a telemetry subsession and throttling time for common environment changes (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.collectInterval

Minimum interval between data collection (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.scheduler.tickInterval

Interval between scheduler ticks (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.scheduler.idleTickInterval

Interval between scheduler ticks when the user is idle (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.idleTimeout

Timeout until we decide whether a user is idle or not (seconds).

toolkit.telemetry.modulesPing.interval

Interval between “modules” ping transmissions.

toolkit.telemetry.send.overrideOfficialCheck

If true, allows sending pings on unofficial builds. Requires a restart.

toolkit.telemetry.testing.overridePreRelease

If true, allows recording opt-in Telemetry on the Release channel. Requires a restart.

toolkit.telemetry.untrustedModulesPing.frequency

Interval, in seconds, between “untrustedModules” ping transmissions.

toolkit.telemetry.healthping.enabled

If false, sending health pings is disabled. Defaults to true.

toolkit.telemetry.testing.disableFuzzingDelay

If true, ping sending is not delayed when sending between 0am and 1am local time.

toolkit.telemetry.testing.overrideProductsCheck

If true, allow all probes to be recorded no matter what the current product is.

Source: Preferences — Firefox Source Docs documentation