PowerPoint templates stored in central location

For Office 265, the default local folder location for storing templates is shown below:


This correspnds to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\Options\PersonalTemplates

Could you push a change to this location via GPO to point to a SharePoint folder?

Thanks!

2 questions:
- Can I point to a https://company.sharepoint.com.... location or does it have to be a local or shared drive location?
- Out machines are in AAD, and not in the local domains. Can I push this registry change through Intune?

Regards,
Mark

I just tested this on our SharePoint site by changing the setting in the screenshot above to this:

\\mydomain.sharepoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\Intranet\Templates

I placed one potx file in that folder and it works as indicated by the "Templates" folder in the backstage here:


For the deployment, have a read of this Microsoft article.

Interestingly, this article says you need to map the location but I didn't need to do that with the above UNC path format:

http://www.sharepoint13.org/?p=520

Thanks again for your help Jamie!

The solution works!

I do want to ask you one more thing since you seem to get this to work without to much changes. I needed to go through 4 steps to get this to work. I tried the steps in different order, but it seems all 4 are needed? This makes it hard to push this out to users. Can you let me know what you needed to do to make this work?
1. Add company.sharepoint.com to trusted sites in Internet Explorer
2. Log in the document library with username and password in Internet Explorer
3. Make a share with the UNC path provided above
4. Create a share using the option "Show in Explorer" (this will install an add-in).

After it works I can remove the share again...

Best regards,
Mark