Title

Publishing calendars to Office Online must be prevented. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

This policy setting controls whether Outlook users can publish their calendars to the Office.com Calendar Sharing Service. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook users cannot publish their calendars to Office.com. If you disable do not configure this policy setting, Outlook users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing them to the Microsoft Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can control who can view their calendar and at what level of detail.

Check Content

Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2016 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Calendar Options -> Office.com Sharing Service "Prevent publishing to Office.com" is set to "Enabled". Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\outlook\options\pubcal Criteria: If the value DisableOfficeOnline is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2016 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Calendar Options -> Office.com Sharing Service "Prevent publishing to Office.com" to "Enabled".

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-228429r508021_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-228429

Group Title: SRG-APP-000516

Expert Comments

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