How to Stop the Annoying Nag Message in Outlook Asking to Take Outlook Anywhere

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 I had an annoying message in Outlook 365 which appeared every day saying "Take Outlook Anywhere.  Stay connected to what matters.  Get Started (or Get it Now)"  There appears to be no way of stopping this appearing through the user interface, although you can just close it.  The reminder seems to appear every day 



Even after a bit of searching online, I couldn't really see any obvious, clear solutions.  I even found some post suggesting that you need to complete on online form to opt out.  As far as I could tell this was just a data-harvesting scam.  This is what I pieced together to get rid of it.
  • Open Regedit (Start --> Run --> Regedit)
  • You then need to navigate to this node
    • Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TargetedMessagingService\MessageData\
  • Right-Click MessageData and choose "Find"
  • Type 425141231 (I got this value by clicking get started and taking it from the URL)
  • You should find a node ending in BizBar with sub nodes as follows :-
    • Action
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
  • In the *BizBar Node you need to add two DWORD values 
    • Right Click, New --> DWORD (32 Bit) Value
      • AppIDonAction = 6
      • SetUserAction = 2
(I got this info from here, which is also where people try to harvest data)

Then just close regedit and close Outlook.  The message shouldn't appear again.


However, this didn't seem to help me, so instead, I did this
  • Open Regedit (Start --> Run --> Regedit)
  • Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\TargetedMessagingService\MessageMetadata\
  • Right-Click MessageData and choose "Find"
  • Type 425141231
  • It should find a node with that as part of the value
  • Within it, there is a value "TimeToNextcall"
  • Set this a couple of years into the future
Hope this helps, if you have anything to add, please comment.

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