You have a SharePoint Server 2013 server farm. Users purchase several apps for Microsoft Office from the Office Store. You need to prevent documents containing Apps for Office that are uploaded to Sha

In SharePoint 2013 Central Administration under Apps, the SharePoint Store Settings page includes a toggle to allow or block Apps for Office. Disabling Apps for Office at this level instructs Office Web Apps not to activate embedded Office app components when rendering documents in the browser, enforcing the restriction farm-wide without affecting document storage or access.

HTML Field Security settings govern which HTML tags and attributes are permitted in rich text and HTML fields within SharePoint lists and pages, and have no authority over how Office applications render embedded apps inside Office documents.

The Apps for Office library in the App Catalog stores enterprise-distributed app packages for internal deployment, but configuring this library does not block the rendering of documents that already contain Apps for Office acquired from the Office Store.

General settings of a web application govern behaviors such as maximum upload size and default time zone, and do not include a setting to prevent browser-based rendering of documents that contain Apps for Office.