STIGUI
V-228429CAT II — Medium severitySV-228429r508021_rule

Publishing calendars to Office Online must be prevented.

Rule version DTOO216 · STIG v2 · 2022-03-11

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

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

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".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-228429
Group title
SRG-APP-000516
Rule ID
SV-228429r508021_rule
Check ID
C-30662r497609_chk
Fix ID
F-30647r497610_fix