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V-228468CAT II — Medium severitySV-228468r508021_rule

Disabling download full text of articles as HTML must be configured.

Rule version DTOO283 · STIG v2 · 2022-03-11

Discussion

This policy setting controls whether Outlook automatically makes an offline copy of the RSS items as HTML attachments. If you enable this policy setting, Outlook automatically makes an offline copy of RSS items as HTML attachments. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Outlook will not automatically make an offline copy of RSS items as HTML attachments.

Check

Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2016 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds "Download full text of articles as HTML attachments" is set to "Disabled".

Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\outlook\options\rss

Criteria: If the value EnableFullTextHTML is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2016 -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds "Download full text of articles as HTML attachments" to "Disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-228468
Group title
SRG-APP-000516
Rule ID
SV-228468r508021_rule
Check ID
C-30701r497726_chk
Fix ID
F-30686r497727_fix