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<blockquote data-quote="codswollip" data-source="post: 904758" data-attributes="member: 58988">Return to default failed me.Last week my Excel 2013 workbooks quit communicating with published Google Sheets. This was a hellish thing to dig into. Running out of ideas, I reset both Simple Windows Hardening and Configure Defender to default (at least I thought I did). Still no connection. Next, I ran an online repair for Microsoft Office. When it completed, registration checks failed because Office couldn&#039;t connect out, leaving me with a ten-day trial.After a lot of googling I found the offending rules in the registry.[CODE][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\FirewallRules]&quot;{f016b...}&quot;=&quot;v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\winword.exe|Name=H_C rule for: winword.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|&quot;&quot;{f016b...}&quot;=&quot;v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\excel.exe|Name=H_C rule for: excel.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|&quot;&quot;{f016b...}&quot;=&quot;v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\powerpnt.exe|Name=H_C rule for: powerpnt.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|&quot;[/CODE]Deleted registry entries. Problems solved? Well... I can now connect, and the firewall &quot;Some settings are managed by your system administrator&quot; warning is gone.Seems like restore to default settings has a bug?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="codswollip, post: 904758, member: 58988"] Return to default failed me. Last week my Excel 2013 workbooks quit communicating with published Google Sheets. This was a hellish thing to dig into. Running out of ideas, I reset both Simple Windows Hardening and Configure Defender to default (at least I thought I did). Still no connection. Next, I ran an online repair for Microsoft Office. When it completed, registration checks failed because Office couldn't connect out, leaving me with a ten-day trial. After a lot of googling I found the offending rules in the registry. [CODE][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\FirewallRules] "{f016b...}"="v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\winword.exe|Name=H_C rule for: winword.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|" "{f016b...}"="v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\excel.exe|Name=H_C rule for: excel.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|" "{f016b...}"="v2.29|Action=Block|Active=TRUE|Dir=Out|App=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office 15\\Root\\Office15\\powerpnt.exe|Name=H_C rule for: powerpnt.exe|EmbedCtxt=H_C Firewall Rules|"[/CODE] Deleted registry entries. Problems solved? Well... I can now connect, and the firewall "Some settings are managed by your system administrator" warning is gone. Seems like restore to default settings has a bug? [/QUOTE]

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