The ability to create an online presentation programmatically must be disabled.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-238039	SRG-APP-000210	DTOO409	SV-238039r961092_rule	2024-12-06	2

Description
This policy setting allows you to restrict the ability to create an online presentation programmatically in PowerPoint and Word. If you enable this policy setting, an online presentation cannot be created programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, an online presentation can be created programmatically.

ℹ️ Check
Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Present Online -> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" is set to "Enabled". Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\broadcast Criteria: If the value disableprogrammaticaccess is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Verify the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Present Online -> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" is set to "Enabled". Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\broadcast Criteria: If the value disableprogrammaticaccess is REG_DWORD = 1, this is not a finding.

✔️ Fix
Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 -> Present Online -> "Restrict programmatic access for creating online presentations in PowerPoint and Word" to "Enabled".