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Office 2016 GPOs in Server 2012R2

We are about to deploy Office 2016 throughout our organization and would like to remove the Store icon from Outlook. That feature really isn't needed for our users. I found a link on how to remove it through GPO which is what I want but I don't see the option for Microsoft Outlook 2016 as my link shows. Any suggestions?

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/36051a90-a9d1-4748-a1de-4b19848add59/removal-of-the-store-icon-from-office-2016?forum=Office2016ITPro

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Bradley Fox

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Joe Lowe

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I have tried to download them but it wants to extract them in specific location. I'm not sure what location to put them in since it appears it needs to be a specific folder for it to show up in Group Policy Management.

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Joe Lowe

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Awesome! I just created the GPO Central store according to your link but when I extracted them into the PolicyDefinitions folder, and go to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates, it now says "All Settings" and then it says "There are no items to show in this view."

I must be missing something?

Joe Lowe

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I figured out using the link below the appropriate way to copy items into the Central Store.

http://www.vkernel.ro/blog/creating-a-group-policy-central-store