How can you disabled COM Add-Ins on an end users' Outlook remotely?

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_{Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:54 PM}

I have end users complaining that Outlook takes a long time to load.  I found that disabling COM Add-Ins Resolves this issue.  Is there a way for me to disable the add-ins remotely instead of going to each PC and turning them off manually?

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_{Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:55 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi Eric,

Yes, there is the way to do so:

Normally, the add-ins will add registry key under the follow path:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins

To disable all the add-ins, just use Group Policy to delete or rename the Addins to OldAddins.

To disable certain add-in, locate to the add-in under Addins, in the right panel, there is a subkey named LoadBehavior, set the value to '2' to disable it.

Use group policy to push the registry settings to these users.

Max Meng

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