Installing Security Compliance Manager

This recipe shows the steps required for a successful installation of Security Compliance Manager.

Getting ready

You should prepare a physical or virtual system to install Security Compliance Manager on. In addition, you should complete the previous recipe Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline before starting the installation.

How to do it...

The prerequisites for installing Security Compliance Manager are as follows:

  • Prepare an account that has administrative privileges on the system where Security Compliance Manager will be installed
  • Ensure you have access to Group Policy Management Console and read-access to AD
  • Ensure you have a compatible operating system; at the time of writing, a client system ...

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