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V-238038

CAT II (Medium)

Office Presentation Service must be removed as an option for presenting PowerPoint and Word online.

Rule ID

SV-238038r960963_rule

STIG

Microsoft Office System 2016 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R5

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

This policy setting allows you to remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word. This list appears when a user selects Present Online from the Share tab in Backstage view and in the ribbon in PowerPoint. If you enable this policy setting, Office Presentation Service is not shown as an option for presenting online. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can select Office Presentation Service to present their PowerPoint or Word file to other users online.

Check Content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Present Online -> "Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word" is set to "Enabled".

Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: 

HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\broadcast 

Criteria: If the value disabledefaultservice is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Present Online -> "Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".