I have an end user who is more of a power user in the company.  They're using Power Maps add-in for excel and are expecting this filter option but its currently not displayed. I have run all MS updates after the add-in was installed as well as a restart to the system. 

I have also found other articles about manually updating office but those options aren't available in our version of office (pro plus x64 15.0.4675.1000).  The registry keys are not even there. 

I deployed our MS office via GPO startup script and MSI file. 

Has anyone run into this or have even a hint as to what may be wrong? 

Hi k4rizma858,

According to your description, you said"I deployed our MS office via GPO startup script and MSI file. ", it seems youre using Microsoft Office 2013. I regret to tell you, Office 2013 doesnt support the filter function of Power Map, and Power Map is an unsupported add-in in Office 2013. Please read this content:

https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Power-Map-for-Excel-82d65bd7-70c9-48a3-8356-6b0e82472d74

Microsoft updates to Excel Power Map with two big features, Power Map Filtering and Custom Maps in September 2014, and the features of Power Map are only enhanced for Office 365. You can get these messages from these links:

http://blogs.office.com/2014/09/09/excel-power-map-september-update/

http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-updates-excel-power-map-with-power-map-filtering-and-custom-maps/

Thus, if you really need to use the filter function of a map. You can use the Office 365 to fulfill your needs or you can try to use Bing Maps in Office 2013.

Hope its helpful.

Hello Friend, 

Thank you for your kind and thorough reply.  This is pretty much what I thought and had found other places but there wasn't a clear answer.   Thanks to you I see that now. 

Cheers mate.