Security Baseline (Draft) for Microsoft 365 has been provided

The Security Baseline for administrators we have known for the Microsoft Edge, or Windows 10. Now one has provided this as a pre-release version of Microsoft 365 for download.

These group policies are based on the previous Office baseline that came out in mid-2019. The highlights in this version include:

• Limiting legacy JScript for Office execution to protect against remote code execution attacks while maintaining user productivity as core services continue to function as normal.
• Advanced macro protection that requires application add-ins to be signed by a trusted publisher. It also turns off trust bar notifications for unsigned application add-ins and blocks them from silently turning them off without notification.
• New guidelines for Microsoft Defender Application Guard that protect users from unsafe documents.

Anyone interested can find more information here. It can be downloaded at the bottom of the post, or directly from this link.

As a note: If you are looking for the current Microsoft 365 versions as a download, you will find it below.

Current Office 365 versions

• Version 2002 Build 16.0.10372.20060 from 03/09/2021 = HomePremRetail (x86 and x64) Download
• Version 2011 Build 16.0.13628.20528 from 03/09/2021 = MonthlyEnterprise (x86 and x64) Download
• Version 2103 Build 16.0.13901.20312 from 03/31/2021 = Current (x86 and x64) Download
• Version 2103 Build 16.0.13901.20312 from 03/30/2021 = CurrentPreview (x86 and x64) Download
• Version 2104 Build 16.0.13926.20000 from 03/30/2021 = BetaChannel (x86 and x64) Download

Executing Setup.exe in the main directory installs the x86 version recommended by Microsoft. If you want to decide for yourself whether x86 or x64 simply run Setup32.exe or Setup64.exe in the Office folder.

Info:

EN Current: docs.microsoft.com/current-channel

EN MonthlyEnterprise: docs.microsoft.com/monthly-enterprise-channel

EN CurrentPreview: docs.microsoft.com/update-history-current-channel-preview

EN BetaChannel: docs.microsoft.com/update-history-beta-channel