MS Office: Fixing Double Slash Auto-correction in links

I had a problem where I wanted to email a link with double slashes in it

Example: doclink://SmartClient/&URL=http://server/DLRemote

In this case, it was for the application DocLink.

Outlook was correcting it to doclink://SmartClient/&URL=http:/server/DLRemote with one slash.

To fix this, I needed to push out a registry entry. I chose to do it with SCCM since only a few people needed it.

I created a PoweShell script with this command:

Set-ItemProperty -Path Registry::'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common' -Name AllowConsecutiveSlashesInUrlPathComponent -Type "DWord" -Value "1"


Then I saved it, and packaged the installation as:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ".\O2019AllowDoubleSlash.ps1"

After restarting Outlook, these people were allowed to correctly format links with double slashes.



Sources

• https://itgeeknotes.blogspot.com/2018/01/microsoft-office-how-to-fix-double.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/set-itemproperty?view=powershell-7
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/email-messages/url-multiple-slashes-become-single-slash