Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer: Prerequisites

Prerequisites for Running Windows Server Solutions BPA

  • Network administrator on Windows server: To successfully access all of the configuration properties, a user must be the network administrator on the server.

  • Enable remoting: Windows Server Solutions BPA enables remoting on the server if the user chooses to enable this feature during installation. If remoting is not enabled on the remote server computer that is being scanned, the scan terminates and an error message is displayed.

Note

This feature is not applicable to Windows Multipoint Server 2011.

See Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer: Troubleshooting for information about how to turn on/off remote scanning on the server.