The Office Feedback tool must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-40881	DTOO411	SV-53213r3_rule		Medium

Description
The "Office Feedback" tool, also called "Send-a-Smile", allows a user to click on an icon and send feedback to Microsoft. Applications used by DoD users should not be able to provide feedback to commercial vendors regarding their positive and negative experiences when using Office due to the potential of unintentionally revealing FOUO or other protected content.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-47519r4_chk )
Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Privacy >> Trust Center >> "Send Office Feedback" is set to "Disabled". 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\15.0\common\feedback If the value “enabled” for every user profile hive is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-47519r4_chk )

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Privacy >> Trust Center >> "Send Office Feedback" is set to "Disabled".

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\15.0\common\feedback

If the value “enabled” for every user profile hive is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-46139r2_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Privacy >> Trust Center >> "Send Office Feedback" to "Disabled".