The configuration for Slide Update with counterparts must be disallowed.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-26639	DTOO319 - PowerPoint	SV-34090r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
This setting controls whether users can link slides in a presentation with their counterparts in a PowerPoint Slide Library. If you enable this policy setting, PowerPoint cannot check the status of a slide in a Slide Library when a presentation with Slide Update data is opened. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, each time users open a presentation that contains a shared slide, PowerPoint notifies them if the slide has been updated and provides them with the opportunity to ignore the update, append a new slide to the outdated slide, or replace the outdated slide with the updated one.

Description

This setting controls whether users can link slides in a presentation with their counterparts in a PowerPoint Slide Library. If you enable this policy setting, PowerPoint cannot check the status of a slide in a Slide Library when a presentation with Slide Update data is opened. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, each time users open a presentation that contains a shared slide, PowerPoint notifies them if the slide has been updated and provides them with the opportunity to ignore the update, append a new slide to the outdated slide, or replace the outdated slide with the updated one.

STIG	Date
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010	2014-01-07

Details

Check Text ( C-34239r1_chk )
The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Disable Slide Update” must be set to “Enabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\powerpoint\slide libraries Criteria: If the value DisableSlideUpdate is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Check Text ( C-34239r1_chk )

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Disable Slide Update” must be set to “Enabled”.

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

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\powerpoint\slide libraries

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

Fix Text (F-29933r1_fix)
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Disable Slide Update” to “Enabled”.