Disable Bing Maps and people graph in Excel

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_{Tuesday, October 15, 2019 2:24 AM}

I need a way to disable the Bing Maps and People Graph from Excel

I have managed to disable the Store and Add-ins links by disabling them via GPO.  They are nicely greyed out now:

GPO -> User Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Microsoft Excel 2016 -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Disable commands -> "Enabled" -> Show... -> Add Store and add-in ID's 16243 and 16245

Maybe this can be used to disable Bing Maps and the People Graph.

Does anyone know the UI command numbers for Bing Maps and People Graph?  Or possibly a way to prevent the Bing Maps icon from functioning in Excel?

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_{Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:59 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Generally, you can get Office 2016 fluent UI command identifiers from OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers@ GitHub. You can download and open excelcontrols.xlsx. There aren't any UI command numbers for Bing Maps and People Graph in Excel. 

As far as I know,  Bing Maps and People Graph are apps for Office (web add-ins from the Office store). You can  manage Store add-ins manually. If you enable the option "Don't allow web add-ins from the Office Store to start" from Trust Center in Excel options, you will disable all web add-ins from the Office store.:

In addition, according to Manage deployment of Office 365 add-ins in the Microsoft 365 admin center, these web add-ins from store are from AppSource. From my point of view, there is such an effective way to block some specific add-ins from AppSource.

If you have more questions on this, I also suggest you contact Office support to further confirmation.

If you have any updates, feel free to post back to let us know.

Best Regards,

Herb

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