Lesson 3

Deploying Security Templates

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3. From the File menu, select Add/Remove Snap-in. The Add/Remove Snap-in dialog

box appears.

4. Click Add. The Add Standalone Snap-in dialog box appears.

5. Scroll down in the Available Standalone Snap-ins list and select Security Configu-

ration And Analysis.

6. Click Add and then click Close. Security Configuration And Analysis appears in the

Add/Remove Snap-in dialog box, along with the Security Templates snap-in that

you added in the Lesson 2 practice.

7. Click OK. A Security Configuration And Analysis entry appears in the Console

Root window.

8. From the File menus, select Save. Leave the console open for the next exercise.

Exercise 2: Analyzing a Computer

In this procedure, you use the Security Configuration And Analysis snap-in to compare

the computer’s current configuration with that of a security template.

1. In the Security Templates console you created, click the Security Configuration

And Analysis heading in the scope pane.

2. From the Action menu, select Open Database. The Open Database dialog box

appears.

3. In the File Name text box, type Windb.sdb and then click Open. The Import Tem-

plate dialog box appears.

4. Click the Hisecdc.inf template, and then click Open.

5. From the Action menu, select Analyze Computer Now. The Perform Analysis dia-

log box appears.

6. Click OK to accept the default log file name. An Analyzing System Security mes-

sage box appears to show a progress indicator as the snap-in performs the analy-

sis.

7. When the analysis is complete, expand the Security Configuration And Analysis

heading and the Account Policies heading in the console’s scope pane.

8. Click the Password Policy subheading in the scope pane.

Notice that the console has flagged three of the six password policies with a red

X, indicating that the database settings for those policies do not match the tem-

plate settings.

9. Double-click the Minimum Password Age policy in the details pane. The Minimum

Password Age Properties dialog box appears.