by: Abolaji timothy oluwaseye
The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager provides centralized security
baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization
capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate
your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and
compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.
Key Features & Benefits
• Centralized Management and Baseline Portfolio: The centralized
management console of the Security Compliance Manager provides you with a
unified, end-to-end user experience to plan, customize, and export
security baselines. The tool gives you full access to a complete
portfolio of recommended baselines for Windows® client and server
operating systems, and Microsoft applications. The Security Compliance
Manager also enables you to quickly update the latest Microsoft baseline
releases and take advantage of baseline version control.
• Security Baseline Customization: Customizing, comparing, merging, and
reviewing your baselines just got easier. Now you can use the new
customization capabilities of the Security Compliance Manager to
duplicate any of the recommended baselines from Microsoft—for Windows
client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications—and
quickly modify security settings to meet the standards of your
organization’s environment.
• Multiple Export Capabilities: Export baselines in formats like XLS,
Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to enable
automation of deployment and monitoring baseline compliance.
• Security baselines for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2003, Hyper-V, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP,
BitLocker Drive Encryption, Windows Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft
Office 2010, and Microsoft Office 2007 SP2
• Setting packs for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8
System Requirements
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• Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Vista Service Pack 2
• This toolkit is intended to work with System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 and the desired configuration management (DCM) feature.
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
File Formats (available as a free download) can be used to open, edit,
and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new
to Microsoft Office 2007.
• Microsoft Word or Microsoft Word Viewer (available as a free download) can be used to view Word documents.
The Security Compliance Manager Getting Started Guide is available on
microsoft official website. Download this short guide to quickly set up
and customize the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool. The guide also
includes brief instructions on using the SCM tool to deploy and monitor
security baselines for the latest server and client operating systems
from Microsoft.
