Publishing calendars to Office Online must be prevented.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-17763	DTOO216 - Outlook	SV-33515r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
Outlook users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can control who can view their calendar and at what level of detail. If your organization has policies that govern access to external resources such as Office Online, allowing users to publish their calendars might enable them to violate those policies.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Outlook 2010	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-34002r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Calendar Options -> Office.com Sharing Service “Prevent publishing to Office.com” must be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\options\pubcal Criteria: If the value DisableOfficeOnline is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-34002r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Calendar Options -> Office.com Sharing Service “Prevent publishing to Office.com” must be set to “Enabled”.

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

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\outlook\options\pubcal

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

Fix Text (F-29690r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Calendar Options -> Office.com Sharing Service “Prevent publishing to Office.com” to “Enabled”.