Removal of the Store icon from office 2016

Question

_{Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:05 PM | 2 votes}

Hey there, I am trying to remove the "store" icon under "add-ins" from office 2016, specifically Outlook 2016.

I disabled the store entirely in windows using group policy -> computer/user -> windows components -> store -> "disable store" however this has not got rid of the icon. I took a quick look in the office 2016 templates and dont see anything specific. Also weird, is that it is under a subheading called "addins" however when i go to the add-ins section of outlook, I dont see anything specifically referring to the "store". How do i get rid of the icon using group policy? Icon pictured below for reference.

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_{Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:07 PM ✅Answered | 10 votes}

Ah nevermind! found it in another forum

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Outlook Options > Other

posting here for reference as i dont see the question on the MS forums.

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_{Friday, February 12, 2016 1:59 PM | 5 votes}

Hi,

You can achieve this by making changes in .MSP file
Modify User Settings --> Microsoft Outlook 2016 --> Outlook Options --> Other
Enable the policy "Hide the Office Store button"



SourabhR

_{Monday, June 20, 2016 12:15 PM}

Hi

Is there a way to remove the "store" icon in Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2016 as well?

I'm not able to find the "Hide the Office Store button" in the Word, Excel and PowerPoint .admx neither in the Microsoft Office 2016 .admx

Hobe you can assist?

Best regards

Jarl

_{Monday, June 20, 2016 3:36 PM}

Sorry, I dont have that icon in any of my office programs. Also looking through a RSOP report, i cannot see any setting i set to disable it.

I looked through the office configuration wizard and there is nothing about store icons in there either.

Im not sure how i got rid of them, if you confirm that you do have that icon in your office programs. I also dont have any addins for any of those programs so i dont see the addins bar. maybe thats why i never noticed it.

_{Friday, November 18, 2016 4:00 PM}

Is there any registry preference available to achieve the same?

_{Tuesday, January 17, 2017 9:10 AM}

Hi,

Take a look at this link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3054849

_{Tuesday, February 7, 2017 6:35 PM}

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3054849

I was hopeful for this fix to work, but unfortunately adding it for WORD/PP/EXCEL reg keys did not get rid of the icon. I was able to disable the Store button in Outlook via GPO just fine, though.

_{Thursday, April 13, 2017 7:08 PM}

Hi Paul_0131, were you able to remove the Store icon in Word?  I've come across the same issue.

_{Monday, June 5, 2017 8:59 PM | 2 votes}

Hi Paul,

I was trying to do what you were looking for as well, a way to remove or disable the Store icon in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  After some test, we found a way to do this.  You can disable the Store icon in Word by adding the command ID 16243 and 16245 for each of the apps in GPO for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Command ID 16243 will gray out the Store icon.  Command ID 16245 will gray out "My Add-ins", because sure enough, there is another Store link if you click on "My Add-ins" in Insert -> Add-ins, which is below the Store icon.  This is the only way I found to prevent user from click the Store icons and/or links.

GPO -> User Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Microsoft Word 2016 -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable commands -> "Enabled" -> Show... -> (Enter the list of command ID, i.e. 16243, 16245.  You will need to add this command ID for each Office app that you want to disable the Store and My Add-ins to.)

Then just apply the GPO to the OU.

_{Monday, June 5, 2017 9:05 PM}

Ah, neat.

I'll have to try that. We also found a setting within O365 that blocks access to the store, but that might just be online. 

Thanks for the tip.

_{Saturday, October 14, 2017 11:23 PM | 4 votes}

I know that I am late to the party, but for anyone, who is coming in now, the Group Policy admin template adds the following registry entry to remove the store. So create this, and then re-open Outlook, and it will be gone.

You can add this exactly to a text document with a .reg file extension, and then click on it to add it to the registry automatically. NOTE: you cannot have file extensions hidden or you will see yourfilename.reg, but it will really be yourfilename.reg.txt with the txt just hidden.

I have done this on several computers successfully.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\webext]
"storebuttoninribbonhometaballowed"=dword:00000000

_{Tuesday, November 21, 2017 6:55 PM | 1 vote}

I have done this on several computers successfully.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\webext]
"storebuttoninribbonhometaballowed"=dword:00000000

Finally, an answer that worked without having to do anything like figure out GPOs!

_{Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:43 AM}

This sound like the solution I have been looking for, but I need help getting started.  I cannot seem to find/access Modify User Settings.

Can you walk me through access clicks; new to Win10

_{Tuesday, February 20, 2018 9:22 PM}

I would highly recommend looking at this article.

There's settings in there to disable the store AND addins across all office products.

The article is for 2013, however I have 2016 in my environment and it works perfect :)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178992.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

_{Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:08 PM}

This setting not really works for me. Store button comes back after some clicks.

_{Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:11 PM}

The office GPO solution is not working for me, but KCotreus solution works like a charme.

_{Monday, July 30, 2018 9:45 PM}

Works Perfectly!  Thank you!

TM Carter

_{Monday, April 8, 2019 10:52 PM}

Hey there, I am trying to remove the "store" icon under "add-ins" from office 2016, specifically Outlook 2016.

I disabled the store entirely in windows using group policy -> computer/user -> windows components -> store -> "disable store" however this has not got rid of the icon. I took a quick look in the office 2016 templates and dont see anything specific. Also weird, is that it is under a subheading called "addins" however when i go to the add-ins section of outlook, I dont see anything specifically referring to the "store". How do i get rid of the icon using group policy? Icon pictured below for reference.

So for some ODD reason there is no way to set this in a Group Policy but if you do it in a Group Policy Preference it works fine in the policies key.

The Disable All Catalogues disables all Web-addins. If you just disable the OEMEXCatalogus it will not grey out the store button entirely but when you click on it, it will only allow for local add-ins.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\WEF\TrustedCatalogs]
"DisableAllCatalogs"=dword:00000001
"DisableOMEXCatalogs"=dword:00000001

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\WEF\TrustedCatalogs]
"DisableAllCatalogs"=dword:00000001
"DisableOMEXCatalogs"=dword:00000001

lforbes

_{Thursday, July 25, 2019 5:11 PM}

After working on this (on and off) for a few days, I blew a support call (and a few more days!) and came up with a registry entry which can be deployed via GPO to disable / remove the GET ADD-INS button in Outlook 2016 and 2019:

https://www.urtech.ca/2019/07/solved-how-to-disable-get-add-ins-button-in-outlook/ 

I hope this helps

Ian Matthews www.urtech.ca www.commodore.ca