Block Office from receiving updates from the Office Update Site.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17565	DTOO213 - Office 2007	SV-18669r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
Obtaining updates from the Office Update site allows users to ensure that their 2007 Microsoft Office installation is kept up to date. However, in many situations administrators will want users to obtain their updates from a local server at the time of their choosing, often by pushing out the updates using a tool such as SMS. This approach allows administrators to ensure greater availability by testing updates, and using a change and configuration management process to ensure that updates are implemented consistently throughout the organization.

Description

Obtaining updates from the Office Update site allows users to ensure that their 2007 Microsoft Office installation is kept up to date. However, in many situations administrators will want users to obtain their updates from a local server at the time of their choosing, often by pushing out the updates using a tool such as SMS. This approach allows administrators to ensure greater availability by testing updates, and using a change and configuration management process to ensure that updates are implemented consistently throughout the organization.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2007	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-18866r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Miscellaneous “Block updates from the Office Update Site from applying” will be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\OfficeUpdate Criteria: If the value BlockUpdates is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-18866r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Miscellaneous “Block updates from the Office Update Site from applying” will be set to “Enabled”.

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

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\OfficeUpdate

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

Fix Text (F-17483r1_fix)
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Miscellaneous “Block updates from the Office Update Site from applying” will be set to “Enabled”. "Note: Group Policy Administrative Templates are available from the www.microsoft.com download site. The MS Office 2007 System (Office12.adm) is included in the AdminTemplates.exe file. This template provides the mechanisms to incorporate Microsoft Office 2007 System policies via the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)." "Note: If the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not used to incorporate the remediation to this vulnerability the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) may be used to create the registry key and value required."

Fix Text (F-17483r1_fix)

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2007 system -> Miscellaneous “Block updates from the Office Update Site from applying” will be set to “Enabled”.

"Note: Group Policy Administrative Templates are available from the www.microsoft.com download site. The MS Office 2007 System (Office12.adm) is included in the AdminTemplates.exe file. This template provides the
mechanisms to incorporate Microsoft Office 2007 System policies via the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)."

"Note: If the Microsoft Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not used to incorporate the remediation to this vulnerability the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) may be used to create the registry key and value required."