SharePoint sites and SharePointTracking

So, today I was trying to figure out how to alter or control the list of Workspaces that appear in my Shared Workspaces task pane in Word/Excel/PowerPoint. I figured the registry would be a good place to check, and I wasn't wrong. Fortunately, the information is not stored in hex or some other format. They are just string values in the registry.

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MODIFYING THE REGISTRY CAN CREATE PROBLEMS, SO

PLEASE CONSULT https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256986

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MODIFYING THE REGISTRY

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The registry key is: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\SharePointTracking

Here, you will find a list of sites as keys with these names: Name0, Name1, Name2, Name3, Name4, Name5. Each of the keys will two values, one for the name that appears in the task pane and one for the URL for the site.

When you add a workspace, its information will appear here, but the list tops out at 6. Thus, when you add a 7th workspace, Office replaces one of the keys with information for the newly created workspace. Why only 6 are allowed in the list is something we may never know. In any case, you can manipulate the list in this location.

I kept digging and I found a KB article about it here: https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823208

 Rock thought for the day: I bought two albums in the last week. First, the Foo Fighters album  from 2002, One by One. It's an album worth having. Many great tracks. I also bought the whimsical output from another David Grohl project called, Probot. It is over-the-top metal that is nearly tongue in cheek in its extreme. However, it is not, and the true nature of metal comes through cleanly with heavy, heavy tracks. I am not a fan of metal "vocals" really, but I like the intensity and technical difficulty of producing these tracks. Amazing CD.

Rock on.