New Security Hardening Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Windows Server 2008

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imageJust an FYI that we published a new version of our System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008 back on June 9th.  I have a brief description and a download link below:

The Operations Manager 2007 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) Roles and Security Hardening guide can be used to help further protect and harden your Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment in conjunction with the SCW on Windows Server 2008 by closing or disabling unnecessary ports and services reducing the overall attack surface.

Feature Bullet Summary:

The Operations Manager 2007 SCW Roles contain hardening definitions for:

  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Server
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Root Management Server
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agent

It also contains additional hardening option for:

  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Audit Collector
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Audit Forwarder
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 SysLog Reader
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agent Push Install And Repair
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agentless Exception Monitoring
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 CEIP
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 Connector Framework

For more information and to download the guide visit https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c22c81eb-c6dc-4190-a4c9-2edbf5b528f1

J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer