The Office Feedback tool must be disabled.

From Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG

Part of DTOO411 - Disable Office Feedback

Associated with: CCI-000381

SV-53213r3_rule The Office Feedback tool must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

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.

Check content

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 hive: HKEY_Users For every users profile hive under HKEY_Users, navigate to the following key: \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

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> Privacy >> Trust Center >> "Send Office Feedback" to "Disabled".

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