Policy

Allow users with earlier versions of Office to read with browsers...

This policy setting will allow users with earlier versions of Office to read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management. If you enable this policy setting, users with earlier versions of Office can read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management. Note that this will make all documents with restricted permissions larger. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users with earlier versions of Office cannot read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Office
CategoryMicrosoft Office 2016 / Manage Restricted Permissions
Policy ID6a78bddff938
Internal nameL_AllowuserswithearlierversionsofOfficetoreadwithbrowsers

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\drm\includehtml (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\drm\includehtml (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting will allow users with earlier versions of Office to read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management. If you enable this policy setting, users with earlier versions of Office can read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management. Note that this will make all documents with restricted permissions larger. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users with earlier versions of Office cannot read documents with browsers supporting Information Rights Management.

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