Hi all,
I'm trying to set the Workgroup templates in Office 2016 via GPO, but it doesn't appear to be working. I've configured "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2016\Shared Paths\Workgroup Templates Path" to enabled with the following path: "C:\Users\Public\Company\Office Templates" (I've tried with and without the quotes - note: it works without the quotes for Office 2010 and 2013).
The policy is applied as I can see from gpresult /r, but the template location does not change on the test system. I read here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/3t0a1m/group_policy_share_templates/) that I need to set a registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\office\16.0\word\options DWORD: officestartdefaulttab Value: 1
This has been applied with Group Policy (successfully) with no change to the behaviour of the Workgroup templates file location. As it stands, I have to manually edit the location which is not practical when I need to do this for hundreds of systems.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Rob