STIGUI
V-223350CAT II — Medium severitySV-223350r961863_rule

Files dragged from an Outlook e-mail to the file system must be created in ANSI format.

Rule version O365-OU-000005 · STIG v3 · 2026-02-12

Discussion

This policy setting controls whether e-mail messages dragged from Outlook to the file system are saved in Unicode or ANSI format.

Check

Verify the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 2016 >> Outlook Options >> Other >> Advanced >> Use Unicode format when dragging e-mail message to file system is set to "Disabled".

Use the Windows Registry to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\options\general

If the value for msgformat is set to REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 2016 >> Outlook Options >> Other >> Advanced >> Use Unicode format when dragging e-mail message to file system to "Disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223350
Group title
SRG-APP-000516
Rule ID
SV-223350r961863_rule
Check ID
C-25023r442269_chk
Fix ID
F-25011r442270_fix