The future of security baseline management has arrived: Download the Security Compliance Manager!

The Security Compliance Manager is now available for download! Windows 7 security just got easier. The tool includes support for this and other Microsoft operating systems and applications.

Many thanks to those of you who participated in the beta review program, and thanks to those who helped us spread the word about this new tool.

Download the Security Compliance Manager.

Learn more about the Security Compliance Manager.

The release of this tool represents the result of hard work and collaboration with IT pros, government agencies, and Microsoft security experts around the globe. We’re excited to provide you and your organization with a tool to better balance your needs for security and functionality, and help you to efficiently manage the security and compliance process.

The Security Compliance Manager will help you accelerate knowledge to merge best practices, customize once to centralize decision making, and export to multiple formats to enable monitoring, verification, and compliance. The tool is designed to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

We hope you’ll take the time to download the Security Compliance Manager. We’re excited about this new release, and once you’ve tried it, we’d love to hear from you!

Share your favorite feature. Let us know if you used the tool to secure Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, or another OS or application. Enjoy!

Vlad Pigin - vlpigin @ microsoft dot com

Solution Accelerators Microsoft Corporation

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Check it out: blogs.technet.com/.../scm-v2-ctp-available-to-download.aspx -jeff

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  May 07, 2010
  Does this mean that the individual kits are no longer available? Although I'm sure this is a good product i'm not sure I like having to set up a SQL express instance and application just to create a policy that I used to simply import from an inf file. Is it possible to make both available, or if they are both available tell us where you hid the zips! Thanks Dave

• Anonymous
  July 01, 2010
  Vladis, Where do we go in technet to log/report/inquire about errors/bugs in the Security Compliance Manager?

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2010
  Hine thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately we do not currently have the feature to take your existing GPO/DCM and compare it to Microsoft recommended baselines. However this is the #1 requested feature and is on our roadmap to implement. It will be delivered in the next version of the tool.

• Anonymous
  July 07, 2010
  Is there any way to get it to work with a proxy?

• Anonymous
  July 13, 2010
  error message, would not download !  What can be done?

• Anonymous
  July 13, 2010
  error message, would not download !  What can be done?

• Anonymous
  July 25, 2010
  I'm so excited by the tool, but the "quick start video" link goes nowhere. Withoutmeaning tobe rude, the current videos are not helpful, and what I am really looking for is a quick overview screencast of common scenarios that one might use the tool for. Where are the demos? Where is the end to end information? Talking heads describing favorite features are nice, but do not achieve my security objectives. I hope you are able to share your expertise through more meaningful video demonstrations soon.

• Anonymous
  July 28, 2010
  I downloaded it and during the installation wizard a message said operating system not supported and I am using Windows 7.  

• Anonymous
  August 02, 2010
  Please publish links to Documentation and How-Tos.  Please update Technet with a QucikStart Guide to help us get our feet wet. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2010
  I am also giving correct answers giving to your questions. Please send me files.

• Anonymous
  September 01, 2010
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• Anonymous
  September 01, 2010
  I mispoke, the Windows update portion does allow to point to internal WSUS server, but there needs to be a way to have every option available in Group Policy, like folder settings, registry setting (permissions) etc.... The ability to export a current GPO and import into this tool wold help. Govt programs need to follow rules from the ODAA guidelines, or from the NIST documents and not all the settings are available in this, that I feel need to be.

• Anonymous
  September 16, 2010
  Hello respected people! I'm not a computer guy. I'm using Windows 7 x64 + Comodo Firewall with Widnows Firewall services off. Now, can I use Security Compliance Manager in my settings, computer. Or are there any other best practical ways. I really need some tech guys help. I am getting lots of problem. Some guys makes my router off, some guys makes my settings go off etc. Thanks. Have a wonderful time. Bye.

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2010
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• Anonymous
  October 08, 2010
  I completely agree with you and currently team is actively working on planning and executing GPO import feature for the Security Compliance Manager. This is a priority feature for us today.

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2011
  Vlad any news on that GPO import feature?

• Anonymous
  March 07, 2011
  Any update on getting the a GPO import feature added to SCM?  This would be extremely beneficial to have. Thanks!