I'm trying to change some security settings in Group Policy for Windows 7 x64 to comply with DISA STIG viewer; its flagging a lot of presets for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite. When I attempt to navigate to the correct subfolder (Microsoft Office 2007 system (Machine)) in gpedit.msc, the location is mysteriously missing.
Example: Disable user name and password
I launch gpedit.msc, Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative templates -> the folder "Microsoft Office 2007 system (Machine)" is not listed. I've checked the filter options and set them to "any" as well as disabling the filter. I tried to perform a Windows search for "powerpnt" and "pptview", which STIG said were related to the setting I was supposed to change and both searches returned 0 results.
Note: I'm still able to launch Powerpoint and the other applications just fine, so it doesn't appear to be a bad install.
I've already read threads: one, two and three and none of them seem related to the problem that I'm having.
You first have to add the Microsoft Office 2007 group policy templates in order to be able to configure Microsoft Office 2007 settings in Group Policy.
After downloading Admin Templates.exe, the file should be about 9.5MB large, if it's smaller and you recieve an error message saying that Admin Templates.exe is not a valid Win32 Application, re-download the program.