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Shared Document Templates - Group Policy

Anonymous
2015-11-16T08:06:57+00:00

Hi All,

Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong category, but couldn't think of one more appropriate.

My goal is simple - use our central network location to store corporate templates for use within Office 2016; specifically Word and Excel 2016. We are moving to O365 at the end of the month, and therefore moving to Office 2016.

Currently, we use Office 2010 where it pulls the shared paths with Group Policy. This works as desired, whereby the templates load up when you click 'New Document' - they are display neatly in another tab. 

I'm expecting to see templates under the 'Shared' area when you open up Word/Excel etc.

What I've done so far:

  • Installed the Office 2016 GPO templates onto the DC (which is replicating nicely)
  • Mimicked the Office 2010 GPO (with two new changes), making sure the Trusted locations are correct, along with the Workgroup template path.
    • 2010 GPO report,

2016 GPO report

  • Made sure the GPO was being deployed correctly with a GPResult on an end-user machine. Confirmed that settings are being pulled through.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or if there is a different way of doing this? I understand you can do a registry change, but that's not feasible on 200 user end-devices.

Thanks in advance!

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Anonymous
2015-11-16T11:57:07+00:00

Hi Jake,

About your requirement to apply the GPO to the Shared Document Templates, to make sure that you get the dedicated support, I would suggest you post this issue on TechNet forum for the right audience to resolve it.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=officeitpro&forum=winserverGP&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

Thanks for your understanding.

Kerwin

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-16T09:00:07+00:00

    Small update

    After leaving the end-user machine for a couple of hours whilst I was working on something else, I revisted it. I opened Word, and the Shared templates where there! Unfortunately, once I closed Word down and re-opened, the Shared area was again blank?! The machine wasn't restarted, and the network remained up during that time.

    I'm expecting this to be filled in also (Under Options > Advanced > File Locations) - http://i.imgur.com/rsjD8U2.png

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