[Microsoft Solution Accelerators] Security Compliance Manager 3.0 Beta Available

The Security Compliance Manager 3.0 Beta review program just start.

Secure your environment with new product baselines for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Windows Internet Explorer 10. The beta release of Security Compliance Manager (SCM) 3.0 provides all the same great features for these new baselines, as well as an enhanced setting library for these new Microsoft products. This beta release includes fixes that resolve many previously reported issues in the setting library. The updated setting library also gives you the ability to further customize baselines. SCM 3.0 provides a single location for you to create, manage, analyze, and customize baselines to secure your environment faster and more efficiently.

As part of a select group of our key customers, we invite you to participate in the Beta Review Program of these new product baselines that include security enhancements for the following server roles and features:

• Windows Server 2012 Security Baselines:
• Domain Controller Security Compliance
• Domain Security Compliance
• Hyper-V Security Compliance
• Member Server Security Compliance
• Web Server Security Compliance
• Windows 8 Security Baselines:
• BitLocker Security
• Computer Security Compliance
• Domain Security Compliance
• User Security Compliance:
• Internet Explorer 10 Security Baselines:
• Computer Security Compliance
• User Security Compliance

What is not available in this beta release ?

• The ability to export compliance data using formats that work with the DCM feature in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is temporarily blocked in the new baselines for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Internet Explorer 10. This functionality will be enabled in the next beta release update.
• This beta release includes five baselines for Windows Server 2012. The following additional server role baselines will be included in the next beta release update:
• Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
• DNS Server
• DHCP Server
• File Services
• Network Policy and Access Servers
• Print Services
• Remote Access
• Remote Desktop Services

What is the release plan for the rest of beta baseline?

Additional SCM 3.0 Beta baselines will be released through Microsoft Connect so that you can download and import them into the SCM 3.0 Beta application.
The date for the next beta is currently scheduled for the middle of November 2012.

Here is a comparison between WS 2008 R2 SP1 and WS 2012 Domain Security Baseline.

 To download this tool : http://connect.microsoft.com/site715/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=46234