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Configure user sign-in for Office 2013

• 12/26/2016
• 3 minutes to read

 

Applies to: Office 2013, Office 365 ProPlus

Summary: Describes how users sign in to Office 2013 and how they can set sign-in IDs.

Audience: IT Professionals

Office 2013 users can sign in by using either of two types of credentials: Microsoft account, or Organization or School. The second type of credential is the user ID that is assigned by the organization or school for the purpose of accessing Office 365. The user supplies these credentials within the user interface (UI) or, in certain cases, the credentials can be picked up from the operating system.

In this article:

• The sign-in UI
• Sign-in settings
• Single sign-on, Active Directory, and federated sign-in

The sign-in UI

Sign-in is a two-step process that involves discovery and authentication. In the discovery step, the user enters the email address that is associated with his or her account. The Sign in user interface is shown in the following screen shot.

Figure: User interface for signing into Office

The next step is authentication.

• When users enter an email address that is associated with a Microsoft account, they are taken to a Microsoft account version of the sign-in UI. The Can’t access your account? link goes to a page that contains password reset instructions.

  Figure: User interface for signing into Office with a Microsoft account ID

  

• When users enter an email account that is associated with their organization or school, they are taken to the organization version of the sign-in UI.

  Figure: User interface for signing into Office with an Organization ID

  

Sign-in settings

You can enable one of four sign-in states by using the Block sign-in to Office Registry setting. This setting controls whether users can provide credentials to Office 2013, and whether they can use their Microsoft account or the user ID that is assigned by your organizations, or both.

The Registry key for this setting is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn\SignInOptions

To enable a sign-in option, set SignInOptions to a particular numeric value as shown in the following table. The type for the SignInOptions setting is DWORD. The table also describes how each selection affects users.

SignInOptions settings

SIGNINOPTIONS SETTINGS

If you set SignInOptions to this…	This is what it means	This is the effect on users
0	Microsoft account or organization ID	Users can sign in and access Office content by using their Microsoft account or one that is assigned by your organization.
1	Microsoft account only	Users can sign in only by using their Microsoft account.
2	Organization only	Users can sign in only by using the user ID that is assigned by your organization. This can be either a user ID in Azure Active Directory or a user ID in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on Windows Server.
3	AD DS only	Users can sign in only by using a user ID in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on Windows Server.
4	None allowed	Users can’t sign in with any ID.

If you disable, or do not configure, the Block sign-in to Office setting, the default setting is 0, which means that users can sign in by using their Microsoft account or one that is assigned by your organization.

Single sign-on, Active Directory, and federated sign-in

When a user signs in to Office 2013, Office automatically tries to use the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) account with which the user logged into the operating system. If that Active Directory account is federated with Office 365, the customer automatically receives all the benefits of signing into Office 365 without having to perform any additional steps. For more information about federating your domain with Office 365, see Prepare for single sign-on.

Source: Configure user sign-in for Office 2013 | Microsoft Docs

There is no doubt Office 2016/2013 is very well integrated with web. You can install new templates for its components, download clip art and various kind of resources needful for your documents easily in this productivity suite. You can also save your documents to cloud storage service such as OneDrive. So there are many features in Office 2016/2013, which require that you should be signed in. But what if you don’t find the sign in option or even if you find it, you receive the following message when you try to sign in:

This feature has been disabled by your administrator

Recently, we found that on one of the Office 2013 copy we have, sign-in option at the right top of the screen is missing. In such a condition, there exists no path which could allow us to get logged in, so that we can personalize our experience with Office. In this article, we’re going to share you the fix for such an issue:

Sign in feature disabled in Office 2013/2016

1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put Regedt32.exe in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.

2. In the left pane, navigate to following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn

3. Since you’re facing the issue, in the right pane of above mentioned key, you’ll see the SignInOptions named registry DWORD (REG_DWORD). It must be showing the Value data equals to 3, double click on this DWORD to modify:

4. In the above shown box, change the Value data to 1 from 3. Click OK. If you like you can delete the same DWORD as well. Now close the Registry Editor and reboot the machine to get results. After reboot, you’ll be able to sign in to Office 2013. (See https://www.marcsiegel.us/configure-user-sign-in-for-office-2013-microsoft-docs/ )

Source: Fix: Sign in feature disabled in Office 2016/2013