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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-40875	DTOO408	SV-53207r1_rule		Medium

Description
The Office Presentation Service is a free, public service that allows others to follow along in a web browser. Allowing this feature could result in presentations with DoD FOUO, PII and other protected data to be viewed in a nonsecure location. By disabling this policy, the user will not have the ability to deliver a presentation online.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG	2013-12-11

Details

Check Text ( C-47513r1_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> 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\15.0\common\broadcast Criteria: If the value disabledefaultservice is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47513r1_chk )

Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> 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\15.0\common\broadcast

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

Fix Text (F-46133r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Present Online -> "Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".