Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Best Practices Analyzer Tools
Many years ago, Microsoft introduced Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) tools for server products such as SQL Server and Exchange. The tools enabled IT professionals to conduct a scan against a product to ensure it was configured based on industry best practices. For many years, IT professionals wanted a similar tool to scan their Windows infrastructure; however, one did not exist. Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a BPA tool, which is included with all editions of Windows Server 2012 except for Server Core. When scanning server roles to find best-practice violations, the BPA tool measures a server role’s compliance based on eight different rule categories. The rule categories are Security, Performance, Configuration, ...
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