Allow users to demote attachments to Level 2
This policy setting controls whether Outlook users can demote attachments to Level 2 by using a registry key, which will allow them to save files to disk and open them from that location. Outlook uses two levels of security to restrict access to files attached to e-mail messages or other items. Files with specific extensions can be categorized as Level 1 (users cannot view the file) or Level 2 (users can open the file after saving it to disk). Users can freely open files of types that are not categorized as Level 1 or Level 2. If you enable this policy setting, users can create a list of Level 1 file types to demote to Level 2 by adding the file types to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Security\Level1Remove. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users cannot demote level 1 attachments to level 2, and the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Security\Level1Remove registry key has no effect.
Policy Details
- Policy Name
- L_AllowUsersToLowerAttachments
- Registry Key
- software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\security
- Value Name
- allowuserstolowerattachments
- Supported On
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Policy State Values
- Enabled: 1Disabled: 0
- Available Languages
- en-us