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Disable Package Repair

Verified with Microsoft 365/Office 5568.1000 — updated on September 4, 2026

Microsoft 365/Office 5568.1000

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Path in the GPO console

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine)\Security Settings

Description

This policy setting lets you disable the option to repair Open XML documents. If you enable this policy setting, Office 2016 prevents applications from performing a repair on corrupted Open XML documents. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, when an Office 2016 application detects that an Open XML document has been corrupted, the user is given the option of repairing the corrupted document.

Registry

HKLM software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\openxmlformat

Value name: disablepackagerepair

Enabled: disablepackagerepair = 1

Disabled: disablepackagerepair = 0

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Configure the state, scope and options, then generate .reg, PowerShell, Intune and SCCM outputs — or add the setting to a multi-setting collection.

These exports write the registry — this is not a managed GPO.

.reg file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Exported from gporais.com
; Policy: Disable Package Repair
; State: Enabled
; Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\openxmlformat]
"disablepackagerepair"=dword:00000001
More formats (PowerShell, Intune, SCCM)

PowerShell

# Exported from gporais.com
# Policy: Disable Package Repair
# State: Enabled
# Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

$path = 'HKLM:\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\openxmlformat'
New-Item -Path $path -Force | Out-Null
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path -Name 'disablepackagerepair' -Value 1 -Type DWord

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