The first-run prompt to sign into Office365 must be disabled.

From Microsoft Office System 2013 STIG

Part of DTOO404 - Office365 first-run prompt

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-53193r2_rule The first-run prompt to sign into Office365 must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Office 365 functionality allows users to provide credentials for accessing Office 365 using either their Microsoft Account, or the user ID assigned by the organization. Access to Office 365 will not be permitted; only locally installed and configured Office 2013 installations will be used. Since the ability to sign into Office 365 will be disabled, this policy, which determines whether the Office First Run comes up on first application boot if not previously viewed, will also be disabled.

Check content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Office 2013 >> First Run >> "Disable Office First Run on application boot" 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\firstrun Criteria: If the value “bootedrtm” 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 -> First Run -> "Disable Office First Run on application boot" to "Enabled".

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