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The Office Feedback tool must be disabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-40881 DTOO411 SV-53213r4_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 2019-03-21

Details

Check Text ( C-47519r5_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 HKCU\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".