Controls/EDCA-GOV-009.json

{
  "id": "EDCA-GOV-009",
  "title": "Exchange Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is disabled",
  "description": "The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is an optional Exchange telemetry feature that periodically collects and transmits anonymized usage statistics — such as feature invocation frequency and configuration data — to Microsoft for product improvement purposes. Exchange MUST NOT send customer experience reports to Microsoft. The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) transmits usage data to Microsoft, which may violate network data-flow restrictions on DoD/government systems. CEIP must be disabled.",
  "verify": true,
  "subject": "Organization",
  "category": "Governance",
  "severity": "Medium",
  "severityWeight": 5,
  "frameworks": [
    "DISA"
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "DISA STIG EX19-MB-000064: Exchange must not send customer experience reports to Microsoft (V-259666)",
      "url": "https://www.stigviewer.com/stigs/microsoft_exchange_2019_mailbox_server/2025-05-14/finding/V-259666"
    }
  ],
  "remediation": {
    "automatable": true,
    "description": "Run Set-OrganizationConfig -CustomerFeedbackEnabled $false to disable the Customer Experience Improvement Program.",
    "scriptTemplate": "Set-OrganizationConfig -CustomerFeedbackEnabled $false"
  },
  "considerations": "CEIP data is asynchronously batched and transmitted. Disabling it has no operational impact on Exchange functionality. Apply via Group Policy in domain-joined environments to ensure it is not re-enabled after updates.",
  "roles": [
    "Mailbox"
  ]
}