User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates

- Using Office 2013 group policy template to define Trusted Locations and Template Locations doesn't work

Microsoft Word 2013/Word Options/Security/Trust Center/Trusted Locations

- Allow Trusted Locations on the network:  Enabled 

- Trusted Location #1:  Enabled 

Path:  //server/sharedfoldername   [Edit:  Path: \\server\sharedfoldername]

Date: June 10, 2013

Description: Trusted Location

Allow sub folders: Enabled

The policy appears to apply to the client correctly by adding the following registry key and values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\15.0\word\security\trusted locations\location1

                allowsubfolders: 1

                date: June 10, 2013

                Description: Trusted Location

                Path:  //server/sharedfoldername  [Edit: Path:  \\server\sharedfoldername]

However, when you open Word Options/Trust Centre/Trust Centre Settings/Trusted Locations

There are no trusted locations listed under Policy Locations

I have tried setting similar settings for setting the Shared Templates folder location and just like the trusted locations policy, the registry keys are created properly in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies however word doesnt seem to recognize these either.

This used to work flawlessly using the administrative templates for Word 2007 and 2010. Has anyone been able to get these policies to apply successfully, or know why office doesnt recognize these settings from the Policies registry Key?

• Edited by Kretschmer Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:08 PM The Trusted Locations Paths were not correctly typed in original post

Try use 

Path:  \\server\sharedfoldername 

instead of

Path:  //server/sharedfoldername?

I am having the same problem.  But I do have the path correct.  The registry settings show up as being correct, but the settings are not showing up in Excel or Word.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

• Edited by Sadoff99 Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:49 PM mistake

same problem here, and I do have the path correct \\server\share\subfolders

I have this working correctly but I need to add more than the 20 locations allowed within the 2013 template, can anyone advise what I need to do to increase the number of trusted locations??

Thanks for your time

were you abel to get this working? I have the same problem. Templates not working in 2013.

same problem here, neither trusted locations, user templates, shared templates nor auto save path are working in 2013. settings are in the registry all right, but word 2013 does not care.

This would have been an easy solution to the issue.  Unfortunately it isn't the problem.  This question was originally posted on another Microsoft site and was transferred here and when it was transferred the path's changed from the original post:  \\server\sharedfodlername to //server/sharedfoldername.  (I will edit the question to show up as it did in the original post) Not sure how that happened.  This is still an issue that I haven't been able to get working correctly.

As it turns out the 'New from Template' interface Word 2013 has developed is very bulky with large thumbnails and is not very customizable nor practical for an office that has a large number of templates.   Because I am unsatisfied with the display and performance of the 'New' template chooser I sought after a solution to change the way word creates a document from a template in another thread:  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/how-can-you-change-the-display-of-templates-in/d49194b9-a6b4-4768-8502-7d7b50e9dd65 working through this issue with Jay we were able to develop some VB script with handles a very large number of templates in a list view and it works much faster than the built-in Word interface.  The above thread is how I've worked around trying to define a shared template location and I am quite happy with it.

hate to revive an old thread here, but has anyone got a solution to the trusted locations not applying via the 2013 ADMX to 2013 office applications?