Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Secure a representative domain controller using SCW

Follow these steps to secure one of your domain controllers using SCW:

Follow these steps on a domain controller in a test environment to test the settings in the context of routine administration processes before rolling the settings out to all production domain controllers.

1. Open Server Manager (servermanager.exe).
2. From the Tools menu in the top grey pane, select Security Configuration Wizard.
3. On the Welcome screen, click Next.
4. On the Configuration Action screen, select Create a new security policy option.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Select Server screen, select the local server. Click Next >.
7. On the Role-based Service Configuration screen, click Next >.
8. On the Select Server Roles screen, click ...