Introduction To Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

TMicrosoft Security Compliance Manager provides basic security features centralized management, a he reference portfolio, customization capabilities and flexibility to export basic security to accelerate your organization's ability to effectively manage the Process Safety and Compliance for Microsoft technologies most widely used.Key Features and Benefits

• Centralized management of portfolio and benchmark: The centralized management console Security Compliance Manager provides a unified user experience from start to finish to plan, customize and security baselines for export. The tool gives you full access to a full range of recommended baselines for Windows ® client and server operating systems and Microsoft applications. The Compliance Manager Security also allows you to quickly update the latest versions of Microsoft Basic and take advantage of version control base.

• Baseline Security Customization: Customization, comparing, merging, and reviewing baselines your never been easier. Now you can use the new customization capabilities of the Security Compliance Manager to duplicate any of the baselines recommended by Microsoft for the Windows client and server operating systems and Microsoft applications and quickly change security settings to meet the environmental standards of your organization.

• Capacity to export multiple baselines for export to formats such as XLS, Policy Object (GPO), the desired configuration management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to help automate the deployment and compliance tracking database.

• The baselines of security for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Hyper-V, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, the BitLocker Drive Encryption, Windows Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2007 SP2

• Configuration Packages for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8

System Requirements

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• Operating systems supported: Windows 7, Windows Vista Service Pack 2

• This toolkit is designed to work with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Desired Configuration Management (DCM) feature.

• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel file formats, and PowerPoint (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 (free download) can be used to view Word documents.

The Compliance Manager Security Start Guide is available on the official Microsoft site. Download this guide to quickly customize and Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool. The guide also contains brief instructions on using the CMS tool to deploy and monitor security baselines for the last server and client operating systems from Microsoft.