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We recommend that you follow these security best practices for your Windows instances.
Least access – Grant access only to systems and locations that are trusted and expected. This applies to all Microsoft products such as Active Directory, Microsoft business productivity servers, and infrastructure services such as Remote Desktop Services, reverse proxy servers, IIS web servers,and more. Use AWS capabilities such as Amazon EC2 instance security groups, network access control lists (ACLs), and Amazon VPC public/private subnets to layer security across multiple locations in an architecture. Within a Windows instance, customers c ...
We recommend that you follow these security best practices for your Windows instances.
What is Windows Server Best Practices Analyzer? ; Windows Server BPA is a built-in feature available in Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions. Windows Server BPA scans the installed roles and features and checks if they comply with the best practices defined by Microsoft based on the feedback and experience of customers, partners and experts. Windows Server BPA can detect issues in several areas, such as security, performance, configuration, operation and maintenance. You can use Windows Ser...
Conduct a thorough review of all permissions, with the reviews carried out by individuals who know which users need access to which resources. In particular, look for individuals who have remote access privileges but do not actually need them to do their work. Eliminate all excessive and unused rights in accordance with the least-privilege principle. Identify and disable all stale or inactive user accounts. Maintain a minimal number of privileged accounts, as they are prime targets for threat ac...
SharePoint is Microsoft’s enterprise-class environment for sharing content: documents, presentations, spreadsheets, notes, images, and more. While SharePoint has many advantages over a raw file system in terms of content management, access to the content still has to be permissioned. SharePoint has its own permission types (view-only, limited access, read, contribute, and more) that can vary by the types of objects (lists, sites, etc.). For a complete list of all the SharePoint permissions and...
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Comprehensive permission policy compliance ; Audited user and admin actions ; Automated and delegated SharePoint governance ; SharePoint content management ; Consistent user experience ; Monitored user adoption
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