Planning Your SMS Security Strategy

Security issues affect all aspects of computer operations and affect the design and implementation of your Microsoft® Systems Management Server (SMS) hierarchy. It is essential that you develop a security strategy before you install SMS to minimize the risk to the integrity and security of the information in your site.

This chapter builds on the security concepts that were introduced in Chapter 5, "Understanding SMS Security," and provides a framework to develop an SMS security strategy.

In This Chapter

  • SMS Security Planning Task List

  • Planning SMS Accounts

  • Planning SMS Object Security

  • Planning SMS Feature Security

  • Planning to Use SMS Security

  • Testing SMS Security

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