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Windows Server Security Essentials

Windows Server Security Essentials

By : Santhosh Sivarajan
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Windows Server Security Essentials

Windows Server Security Essentials

4.8 (6)
By: Santhosh Sivarajan
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Overview of this book

If you are a security or Windows Server administrator wanting to learn or advance your knowledge in Microsoft security and secure your Windows Server infrastructure effectively, this book is for you.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Operating System and Baseline Security
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1. Operating System and Baseline Security
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Microsoft Windows Server
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Baseline and security
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Summary
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2. Native MS Security Tools and Configuration
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2. Native MS Security Tools and Configuration
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Microsoft SCM
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Administering Microsoft SCM
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Creating and implementing security policies
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Exporting GPO from Active Directory
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Importing GPO into SCM
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Merging imported GPO with the SCM baseline policy
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Exporting the SCM baseline policy
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Importing a policy into Active Directory
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Maintaining and monitoring the integrity of a baseline policy
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Application control and management
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Summary
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3. Server Roles and Protocols
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3. Server Roles and Protocols
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Server types and roles
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Managing servers using Server Manager
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Server Message Block
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Summary
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4. Application Security
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4. Application Security
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File or data server
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Print server
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Hyper-V servers
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Internet Information Services
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Summary
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5. Network Service Security
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5. Network Service Security
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Baseline policies
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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Service accounts
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Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
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6. Access Control
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6. Access Control
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Dynamic Access Control
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7. Patch Management
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7. Patch Management
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Microsoft Windows Server Update Services
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8. Auditing and Monitoring
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8. Auditing and Monitoring
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Auditing
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Monitoring
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Index
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Index

Service accounts

Management of service accounts and passwords can be a challenge. Since these accounts are highly privileged and have unique settings in Active Directory, unmanaged accounts can be a security threat to any organization. Some of these issues are documented at http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/07/16/too-many-admins-in-your-domain-expose-the-problem-s-and-find-a-solution-don-t-forget-powershell.aspx. To address some of these issues and to better control these types of highly privileged and special accounts in Active Directory, Microsoft has introduced a concept called Managed Service Accounts (MSA) in Windows Server 2008. Sometimes it is referred to as standalone MSA. Due to some limitations, this concept wasn't highly adopted in large enterprise environments. With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced an enhancement to MSA called Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). gMSA can provide the same functionality as MSA for multiple or groups of servers...

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