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Is there any way to tell if your company has opted in? Mine makes a huge show of classifying Office documents and barking about the policies of what can be shown to outside people. It would be hilarious to find out that they've done this, and are letting Microsoft slurp up all the stuff that would get us fired if we sent it to an outside email address.


When I click "Design Ideas" (rightmost icon in Home ribbon), I get a prompt that says "This experience is unavailable. Your organization's admin has turned off the service required to use this experience."

This is despite both the Privacy -> "Turn on Optional connected experiences" and "Automatically show me design ideas" options being modifiable by me (and give the same results whether enabled or not), so I guess the Group Policy options are more fine grained.


In options (under General), I see there's a tick box for the feature, and it is checked. I have a button that says "Designer," and it seems to work. Nice! Next time someone in IT tells me something as moronic as "all web application authentication code must be written in C," or that "SAML authentication happens by adding a key to the HTTP header," -- both of which have actually happened -- I'll have a nice redirection to share.


I believe this is covered by the "Optional Connected Experiences" option. On Mac, this is accessible via the App's main menu > Preferences > Privacy.

Looks like these instrucitons should help you check:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/privacy/optio...




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