Administering Microsoft SCM

This section provides you with an overview of Microsoft SCM and some administration procedures to create and manage policies. These tasks can be achieved by performing the following steps:

  1. Open Security Compliance Manager. If you see a Download Updates popup window, click on the Download button to start the download and complete the database update process.
  2. Security Compliance Manager consists of mainly two sections: Custom Baselines and Microsoft Baselines. We will go through the details later in this chapter.
    Administering Microsoft SCM

    SCM - Baselines

  3. Expand Microsoft Baselines. Since we are focusing more on Windows Server 2012, I will start with ...

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