Group Policy: Show only specified Control Panel items for Outlook 2016 via Office 365

I just stumbled over something at a customers environment. We had a Outlook 2016 / Office 365 problem in a XenApp session. We tried to access the Outlook control panel item, but it was missing. This was no surprise, as we have the GPO…

Show only specified Control Panel items

…enabled in every environment. This acts as a whitelisting for the control panel items, so the user only has access to those items, that matter to him.The surprise was, that the control panel item for Outlook 2016 was missing, although we configured it in the corresponding GPO:

Group Policy Editor

rsop.msc

Control Panel

After a bit research we found out, that despite this Group Policy’s behavior in the past, the item should not be named exactly like its original naming:

The trick is, to cut the (32-Bit) from the naming in the GPO:

Group Policy Editor

gpupdate / Control Panel

Afterwards, the Control Panel item is finally visible again. Hope I could help someone!

Author: Marco

Marco is an IT-System administrator and IT-Consultant with 10+ years experience. He is specialized in the delivery of virtual Apps and Desktops with Citrix solutions. In 2017 he has been awarded Citrix Technology Advocate by Citrix for his community work (#CTA). His second core area is availability & performance monitoring with Zabbix, a leading open-source solution. His employer is the German IT-Company ANAXCO, which is developing a Transport Management Software (TMS) based on Microsoft Dynamics AX. More about Marco View all posts by Marco