Disable "First things first"

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2017-02-17

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_{Friday, February 17, 2017 10:30 AM}

Hi all,

we are running Office 365 on a Citrix Farm (400 users) with Exchange on premise. From time to time all users get the "First things first" dialog on Startup (Outlook, Word, Excel) and something also during work.

I tried all ideas I found on the web including the GPO Settings and registry entries from here (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/d8867a27-894b-44ff-898d-24e0d0c6838a/office-2016-proplus-first-things-first-eula-wont-go-away?forum=Office2016setupdeploy) with no luck.

Does somebody know how I really can suppress this annoying popup several times a week?

Viele Grüße Dirk

All replies (3)

_{Monday, February 20, 2017 9:20 AM}

Hi,

>>I tried all ideas I found on the web including the GPO Settings and registry entries from here

Could you specify what GPO and registry entries you have tried as there are many registry entries mentioned in the thread you mentioned?

Have you double checked whether the GPO settings has been successfully applied after configuring it? We may try to open the registry editor and see if the corresponding registry entries have been correctly created.

Regards,

Steve Fan

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_{Monday, February 20, 2017 9:25 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Steve,

thanks for your answer. It looks like the following reg key solved my problem:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Registration]
"AcceptAllEulas"=dword:00000001

Viele Grüße Dirk

_{Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:49 AM}

Good the hear that! AcceptAllEulasis the corresponding registry entry used to control the "First things first" dialog. Could you help mark your reply as the answer so that it will be easy for other community members who are encountering the same issue to quickly find the verified one?

Thank you for your understanding.