Details
This policy setting controls whether Excel displays an alert before republishing a workbook to the World Wide Web. The recommended state for this setting is: Disabled. AutoRepublish is a feature in Excel that allows workbooks to be automatically republished to the World Wide Web each time the workbook is saved. A number of changes might need to be made to allow the workbook to be successfully published, including the following: #x2022; External references are converted to values. #x2022; Hidden formulas become visible. #x2022; The Set precision as displayed option, which appears beneath the When calculating this workbook heading in the Advanced section of the Excel Options dialog box, is no longer available. These types of changes can mean that the version on the Web page might not be the same as the Excel file. By default, a message dialog box appears every time the user saves a published workbook when AutoRepublish is enabled. From this dialog box, the user can disable AutoRepublish temporarily or permanently, or select Do not show this message again to prevent the dialog box from appearing after every save. If the user selects Do not show this message again, Excel will continue to automatically republish the data after every save without informing the user.
Solution
To implement the recommended configuration state, set the following Group Policy setting to Disabled. User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft Excel 2016Excel OptionsSaveDo Not Show AutoRepublish Warning Alert Impact: Configuring this setting to ‘Always show the alert before publishing’ reinforces the default functionality in Excel, and is therefore unlikely to cause usability issues for most users
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.