Published: June 5, 2008   |   Updated: February 18, 2009

 

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About This Solution Accelerator

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit series provides IT professionals like you with an end-to-end solution to help your organization plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications.

 

This Solution Accelerator is designed to help your organization meet its security and compliance requirements by providing the following resources:

• Prescriptive, tested, end-to-end security guidance from Microsoft for Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows XP® Professional SP3, Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server® 2003 SP2, and 2007 Microsoft Office SP1.
• Automated tools like the GPOAccelerator to help you configure and deploy recommended security settings.
• Configuration Packs for you to use with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature of Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 to monitor the Microsoft security guidance deployed in your environment. You can also remediate security baseline issues with this functionality.
• Reporting functionality you can use to notify auditors that the computers in your environment are in compliance with best practices and the security recommendations for these Windows operating systems and Office applications.

In More Detail

This toolkit series includes the following Solution Accelerators:

• Windows Server 2008 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows Server 2003 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows Vista Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows XP Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• 2007 Microsoft Office Security Compliance Management Toolkit.

Other New Solution Accelerators

• Hyper-V Security Guide

  The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals like you with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address your key security concerns about server virtualization. The guide includes the following chapters: Hardening Hyper-V, Delegating Virtual Machine Management, and Protecting Virtual Machines.

Related Resources

The following resources provide additional information about security topics and in-depth discussion of the concepts and security prescriptions in this guide:

• Security Solution Accelerators
• Security Compliance Management Toolkit series
• TechNet Labcast On-Demand: SCM Toolkit: Configure the DCM feature
• TechNet Labcast On-Demand: SCM Toolkit: Reporting

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