Details

When users create new database files, Access saves them in the new Access format. Users can change this functionality by clicking the Office button, clicking ‘Access Options’, and then selecting a file format from the default file format list.

If a new database is created in an inappropriate format, some users might be unable to open or use it.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Access 2013 -> Miscellaneous ‘Default File Format’ to ‘Enabled (Access 2007)’.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_MS_Access_2013_V1R6_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CAT|III
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-52772r1_rule
• STIG-ID|DTOO136
• Vuln-ID|V-17584

Source

• Tenable.com/audits