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:
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.
Security Compliance Manager consists of mainly two sections: Custom Baselines and Microsoft Baselines. We will go through the details later in this chapter.
SCM - Baselines
Expand Microsoft Baselines. Since we are focusing more on Windows Server 2012, I will start with this section.
Select the Windows Server 2012 node. This node contains predefined security polices based on Microsoft and industry best practices.
Since we worked on a web server policy in Chapter 1, Operating System and Baseline Security, I will use the predefined WS2012 Web Server Security template for this exercise.