The configuration for Slide Update with counterparts must be disallowed.

From Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 STIG

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-34090r1_rule The configuration for Slide Update with counterparts must be disallowed.

Vulnerability discussion

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if the slide has been updated and provides them with the opportunity to ignore the update, append a new slide to the outdated slide, or replace the outdated slide with the updated one.

Check content

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

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 -> Miscellaneous “Disable Slide Update” to “Enabled”.

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