Office addin - Resiliency\DisabledItems registry

Question

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?

Answer 1

@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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Answer 2

Thank you very much!
This helped me decode the registry value (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/SqlServer/en-US/dfe6e17c-2046-4277-8e8b-72a9aeb3043e/how-can-i-convert-a-regbinary-value-from-the-registry-into-a-redable-string?forum=csharpgeneral)