Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer: Rules

The following table contains the rules in this release.

Rule description Applicability

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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, Windows Multipoint Server 2011

The internal network adapter must be assigned only one IP address

Windows SBS 2011

IP filtering must be disabled

Windows SBS 2011

The server must be able to ping the IP address of the default gateway

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The server can ping the IP address of the default gateway

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) should be enabled

Windows SBS 2011 STD

The kernel mode authentication should be disabled

Windows SBS 2011 STD

Hyper-V role should not be added to the Windows SBS 2011 server

Windows SBS 2011

The MSDTC service should be set to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011

The Netlogon service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011

The DNS Client service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The DNS Server service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011

The DHCP Client service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The IIS Admin service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The World Wide Web Publishing service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Remote Registry service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows SBS Manager service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011 STD

The Remote Desktop Gateway service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows Time service should be configured to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows Update service should be set to start automatically by default

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The MSDTC service should be started

Windows SBS 2011

The Netlogon service should be started

Windows SBS 2011

The DNS Client service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The DNS Server service should be started

Windows SBS 2011

The Windows Update service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The IIS Admin service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The World Wide Web Publishing service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Remote Registry service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows SBS Manager Service should be started

Windows SBS 2011 STD

The Remote Desktop Gateway service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows Time service should be started

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The MSDTC service should be the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011

The Netlogon service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011

The DNS Client service should use the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The DNS Server service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011

The Windows Update service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The DHCP Client service should use the NT AUTHORITY\LocalService account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The IIS Admin service service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The World Wide Web Publishing service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows SBS Manager service should use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011 STD

The Remote Desktop Gateway service should use the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

The Windows Time service should use the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service account as its logon account

Windows SBS 2011, Windows Storage 2008 R2 Essentials

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Windows Multipoint 2011

The Windows MultiPoint Server Host Service must be configured to start automatically by default

Windows Multipoint 2011

The Windows MultiPoint Server Host Service must use the Local System account as its logon account

Windows Multipoint 2011

The SRCShell user account must exist for Windows MultiPoint Server to properly function

Windows Multipoint 2011

The Windows MultiPoint Server Host Service must be started

Windows Multipoint 2011

The Remote Desktop Services service must be started

Windows Multipoint 2011