Details
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. The recommended state for this setting is- Enabled.
*Rationale*
By default, Outlook 2010 users can share their calendars with selected others by publishing
them to the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. Users can control who can
view their calendar and at what level of detail. If your organization has policies that govern
access to external resources such as Office.com, allowing users to publish their calendars
might enable them to violate those policies.
Solution
To implement the recommended configuration state, set the following Group Policy setting
to Enabled.
User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft Outlook 2010Outlook
OptionsPreferencesCalendar OptionsOffice.com Sharing ServicePrevent publishing to
Office.com
Impact-Enabling this setting will cause disruptions for Outlook 2010 users who publish their
calendar data to Microsoft Office.com. Such users will have to publish their calendar data to
a different resource or stop publishing their calendar data. Users who do not publish
calendar data will not be affected by this setting.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.