Outlook 2013 Manage Apps Button

According to the Office 365 Message Center, Outlook will be getting a new button in the home tab for managing Outlook apps from the Office store.

New feature: Office Store icon in Microsoft Outlook

Details We're releasing a new feature to enhance your Office 365 experience. Outlook will be updated to include a new button in the Home ribbon tab. Clicking on it, will launch a web page and take you to the Office Store (https://store.office.com), where you can browse add-ins and add them to Outlook.

Should this update break any organizational policies, you can hide this Store button by using Group Policy. Please click Additional Information to learn more. Additional information

This link describes how that can be disabled using GPO or the registry. However, the GPO setting does not seem to exist and the registry path looks to be for Office version 16.0 even though the verbiage of the article states this is for Office 2013.

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/ff631135.aspx#BKMK_MailApps

Is anyone aware of whether this feature is truly coming to Outlook 2013? If so, what is the right way to hide this? Thanks!

April 22nd, 2015 9:24am

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