Run in FIPS compliant mode must be enforced.

From Microsoft Outlook 2013 STIG

SV-54005r1_rule Run in FIPS compliant mode must be enforced.

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Outlook can run in a mode that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), a set of standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by non-military United States government agencies and by government contractors.By default, Outlook does not run in FIPS-compliant mode. Organizations that do business with the U.S. government but do not run Outlook in FIPS-compliant mode risk violating the government's rules regarding the handling of sensitive information.

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Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2013 -> Security -> Cryptography "Run in FIPS compliant mode" to "Enabled".

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