Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM): Survival Guide

Security Compliance Manager (SCM) retired; new tools and procedures Wiki

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) Portal

Download

You can download SCM 4.0 here.

Download SCM 3.0

Baselines

• SCM baselines for Office 2013
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=403023&clcid=0x409 (baseline)
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=403024&clcid=0x409 (attachments)
• SQL Server 2012
  • download.microsoft.com/…/SQL-2012-Security-Compliance-Baseline.cab 
  • download.microsoft.com/…/SQL-2012-Security-Compliance-Baseline_Attachments.cab 
• Security baselines for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Internet Explorer 11
  • Win81-WS2012R2-IE11-Baselines-FINAL.zip

TechNet Library

•  TechNet Library

Community

Blog

• SCM Blog
  • 2016-10-22: Policy Analyzer v3.1 PRE-RELEASE
  • 2016-10-17: Security baseline for Windows 10 v1607 (“Anniversary edition”) and Windows Server 2016
  • 2016-10-02: The MSS settings
  • 2016-09-23: LGPO.exe v2.0 PRE-RELEASE: support for MLGPO and REG_QWORD
  • 2016-07-28: Security Compliance Manager 4.0 now available for download!
  • 2016-05-27: Security baseline for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 (TP5)
  • 2016-01-22: Security baseline for Windows 10 (v1511, "Threshold 2") — FINAL
  • 2016-01-22: Security baseline for Windows 10 (v1507, build 10240, TH1, LTSB) — UPDATE
  • 2016-01-22: New tool: Policy Analyzer
  • 2016-01-22: LGPO.exe – Local Group Policy Object Utility, v1.0
  • 2016-11-18: Changes from the Windows 8.1 baseline to the Windows 10 (TH1/1507) baseline
  • 2015-11-13: Security baseline for Windows 10 (“Threshold 2”) – DRAFT
  • 2016-11-13:Security baseline for Windows 10 (build 10240) – FINAL
  • 2016-11-02: Windows 10 SCM beta is now live!   
• Configuring Account Lockout
• Why We’re Not Recommending “FIPS Mode” Anymore

Forums

• SCM Forums

Video

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-Security-Guidance-for-Windows-8-1-Windows-Server-2012-R2-and-IE-11
• Security Compliance Manager Demo
• TechNet Edge: Security Compliance Manager with Microsoft Product Unit Manager Chase Carpenter
• José and Jeff discuss SCM
• Microsoft Security Compliance Manager Interview with Chase Carpenter at Microsoft Management Summit 2011
• Solution Accelerators Team presents Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
• System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP