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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • The Help Improve Proofing Tools feature for Office must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The "Help Improve Proofing Tools" feature collects data about use of the Proofing Tools, such as additions to the custom dict...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • A mix of policy and user locations for Office Products must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When Microsoft Office files are opened from trusted locations, all the content in the files is enabled and active. Users are ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • Smart Documents use of Manifests in Office must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An XML expansion pack is the group of files that constitutes a Smart Document in Excel and Word. One or more components that ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • Legacy format signatures must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Office applications use the XML-based XMLDSIG format to attach digital signatures to documents, including Office 97-2003 bina...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • External Signature Services Menu for Office must be suppressed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users can select Add Signature Services (from the Signature Line drop-down menu on the Insert tab of the Ribbon in Excel 2013...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • Inclusion of document properties for PDF and XPS output must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for Microsoft Office Programs is installed, document properties are saved as metad...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • Blogging entries created from inside Office products must be configured for SharePoint only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The blogging feature in Office products enables users to compose blog entries and post them to their blogs directly from Offi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • The Enable Updates and Disable Updates options in the UI must be hidden from users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This policy setting allows the user interface (UI) options to enable or disable Office automatic updates to be hidden from us...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • When using the Office Feedback tool, the ability to include a screenshot must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The "Office Feedback" tool, also called "Send-a-Smile", allows a user to click on an icon and send feedback to Microsoft. The...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • The ability to run unsecure Office apps must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unsecure apps for Office, which are apps that have web page or catalog locations that are not SSL-secured (https://), and/or ...
    Rule Medium Severity

The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

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