Office Presentation Service must be removed as an option for presenting PowerPoint and Word online.

From Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG

Part of DTOO408 - Office Presentation Service must be removed

Associated with: CCI-000381

SV-53207r2_rule Office Presentation Service must be removed as an option for presenting PowerPoint and Word online.

Vulnerability discussion

The Office Presentation Service is a free, public service that allows others to follow along in a web browser. Allowing this feature could result in presentations with DoD FOUO, PII and other protected data to be viewed in a nonsecure location. By disabling this policy, the user will not have the ability to deliver a presentation online.

Check content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Present Online >> "Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word" is set to "Enabled". 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\broadcast If the value “disabledefaultservice” is REG_DWORD = 1 for every user profile hive, this is not a finding.

Fix text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Present Online -> "Remove Office Presentation Service from the list of online presentation services in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".

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