Blogging entries created from inside Office products must be configured for SharePoint only.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17581	DTOO212	SV-52756r2_rule		Medium

Description
The blogging feature in Office products enables users to compose blog entries and post them to their blogs directly from Office, without using any additional software. By default, users can post blog entries to any compatible blogging service provider, including Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, a SharePoint or Community Server site, and others. Leaving this capability enabled introduces the risk of users posting confidential and FOUO date to non-DoD sites.

Description

The blogging feature in Office products enables users to compose blog entries and post them to their blogs directly from Office, without using any additional software. By default, users can post blog entries to any compatible blogging service provider, including Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, a SharePoint or Community Server site, and others. Leaving this capability enabled introduces the risk of users posting confidential and FOUO date to non-DoD sites.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG	2017-06-20

Details

Check Text ( C-47085r3_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Miscellaneous "Control Blogging" is set to "Enabled (Only SharePoint blogs allowed)". Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive: HKEY_Users For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key: \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\Blog If the value “DisableBlog” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47085r3_chk )

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Miscellaneous "Control Blogging" is set to "Enabled (Only SharePoint blogs allowed)".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following hive:
HKEY_Users

For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key:
\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\Blog

If the value “DisableBlog” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-45682r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Miscellaneous "Control Blogging" to "Enabled (Only SharePoint blogs allowed)".