Provided in this section are policies related to security settings of Microsoft Office 2003 Editions applications. This same information can be found by examining the various ADM policy templates that are included with the Office Resource Kit and are installed during a typical installation.
The policies presented here are listed by the respective ADM policy template, policy grouping, and then the security-related policy text name. The registry key is not documented here. However, it is possible to find the registry key in the ADM template and then copy that key information and the possible data value you may need to put into a REG file or to use with the Add/Remove Registry Entries page of the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard. Copying the registry entry is not a recommended step in deploying policies; use of Active Directory is the recommended method of policy propagation to users on a corporate network.
Note | If you have multiple versions of Office currently installed throughout a corporate network, the policy settings will not conflict with one another because of the method in which the registry nodes for Microsoft Office XP (Office 10.0) and Microsoft Office 2003 (Office 11.0) are stored within the registry. |
AER_1033.adm—Automatic Error Reporting (replacement for dw20.adm)
General Reporting
Disable error reporting
Do not upload user documents
Do not upload any additional data
Corporate Error Reporting
Hide Don’t Send button
URL to launch after reporting
URL to explain why user should report
Queued Reporting
Bypass queue and send all reports
Send all queued reports silently
ACCESS11.adm—Microsoft Office Access 2003
Tools | Macro—Security
Security Level
Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Trust access to Visual Basic Project
Tools | Security—Workgroup Administrator
Path to shared Workgroup information file for secured MDB files
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Miscellaneous
Do not prompt to convert older databases
EXCEL11.adm—Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Tools | Macro—Security
Security Level
Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Trust access to Visual Basic Project
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Miscellaneous
OLAP PivotTable User Defined Function (UDF) security setting
FP11.adm—Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
GAL11.adm—Microsoft Clip Organizer
Disable Clips Online access from Clip Organizer
Clip Organizer Online URL
Disable menu item: File | Send to Mail Recipient (as Attachment)
Disable menu item: Tools | Tools on the Web…
Prevent automatically importing clips
Prevent users from importing new clips
INF11.adm—Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Security
Disable opening of solutions from the Internet security zone
Disable installed solutions full access to machine
INSTLR11.adm—Windows Installer
Always install with elevated privileges
OFFICE11.adm—Microsoft Office 2003
Tools | AutoCorrect options…
Check for new actions URL
Tools | Options | General | Service Options—Online Content
Online Content Options
Help—Help | Privacy Settings
Enable Customer Experience Improvement Program
Help—Help | Detect and Repair
Discard my customized settings and restore default settings
Security Settings
Disable VBA for Office applications
Unsafe ActiveX Initialization
Automation Security
Prevent users from changing Office encryption settings
Specify Trusted Alert Sources
Prevent Word and Excel from loading managed code extensions
Shared paths
Web Query dialog home Page
Save My Settings Wizard
Prevent users from uploading settings to the internet
Default location to store settings file (OPS)
Help on the Web
Feedback URL
Customizable Error Messages
Base URL
Disable items in user interface
Disable Information Rights Management User Interface
Services
Disable Fax Over Internet feature
Instance Messaging Integration
Allow IM to query people not on the buddy list
Manage Restricted Permissions
Additional permissions request URL
Make document with restricted documents viewable in trusted browsers
Always require users to connect to verify permissions
Never allow users to specify groups when restricting permission for document
Miscellaneous
Do not upload media files
Disable hyperlinks to web templates in File | New and task panes
Prevent access to Web-based file storage
Disable web view in the Office file dialogs
OUTLK11.adm—Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Tools | Macro—Security
Security Level
Outlook: Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Outlook Today settings
URL for custom Outlook Today
Miscellaneous
NetMeeting
Junk e-mail filtering
Auto-repair of MAPI32.DLL
Prevent users from adding e-mail account types
Prevent users from making changes to Outlook profiles
PPT11.adm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Tools | Options—Edit
Password protection
Tools | Macro—Security
Security Level
Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Trust access to Visual Basic Project
Slide Show | Online Broadcast | Setup and Schedule—Broadcast settings
Send audio
Send video
Slide Show | Online Broadcast | Setup and Schedule—Broadcast settings—Other Broadcast Settings
Chat server URL
Event URL
Help page URL
Video/audio test page URL
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
PUB11.adm—Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
Tools | Macro—Security
Security Level
Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Miscellaneous
Disable Tools | Tools on the Web…
Prevent web pages displayed in Publisher from accessing the Office object model
Disable web view in the Office file dialogs
RM11.adm—Information Rights Management
(no security-related policies)
SCRIB11.adm—Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Security
Saving personal information in OneNote files
WORD11.adm—Microsoft Office Word 2003
Tools | Options—General
Tools | Macro—Security
Allow background open of web pages
Security Level
Trust all installed add-ins and templates
Trust access to Visual Basic Project
Disable items in user interface—Custom
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys
Disable items in user interface—Predefined
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
Disable shortcut keys