There is no worthwhile documentation of this process except on this Deployment Guys blog post. To get this to work we can use a little-known feature of Office which allows you to specify some HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys that are automatically migrated into HKEY_CURRENT_USER when an Office application is first run for that user. Its fully supported in the registry and works at run-time.Ĭredit Jonathan Bennett, Automating Office 365 Click-to-Run First Use Without Group Policy. I found a blog posting describing creating the FirstRun>BootedRTM reg entries on the fly for new users. installing and configuring the Office Administrative Templates for local GPO and setting the first run wizard to disabled under Local Computer Policy and also under Local Computer/Non-administrators Policy( )Īt this point the First Run wizard still appears each time the program is started for the mandatory user.running the Office program as an administrator (while logged in to a non-mandatory administrative account - the First Run wizard does not appear each time for other users, though).setting permissions on the Office registry key to be editable by regular users (This allowed me to accept the EULA, but still shows the first run wizard).running through the wizard to completion.The 'Welcome to your new Office' wizard appears every single time an Office program is launched for the mandatory/default profile. My issue is that I have recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 (subscription version) and I can't seem to turn off the 'First Run wizard'.

This computer has a mandatory user profile and uses Local GPO to configure the profile on each login. I have a Windows 7 Professional computer in a workgroup.

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