Office addin - Resiliency\DisabledItems registry

Chirtes, Mircea [AUTOSOL/RAS/RO] 21 Reputation points
2020-12-03T11:08:03.673+00:00

Hi,
Is there any documentation regarding the meaning of the values under the following registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Resiliency\DisabledItems]?
I am interested in monitoring when a specific Excel Plugin gets disabled.
If I know a value that disables a plugin, can other values also disable it?

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  1. Erin Ding-MSFT 4,476 Reputation points
    2020-12-04T08:10:26.497+00:00

    @Chirtes, Mircea [AUTOSOL/RAS/RO]

    I found that each time an add-in is disabled via Microsoft, a REG_BINARY entry is created under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office(version)(application)\Resiliency\DisabledItems with a binary value.
    However, I did not find relate official document. Instead, you may get more helpful information from the thread.
    If you would like to convert a REG_BINARY value from the registry into a readable string, please refer to this thread.

    > If I know a value that disables a plugin, can other values also disable it?

    << Please tell me what does “value” mean? Do you mean the binary value or some value else?

    If you have any updates, please post back.


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  1. Chirtes, Mircea [AUTOSOL/RAS/RO] 21 Reputation points
    2020-12-07T07:22:21.89+00:00

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