Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer: Overview

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Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 is a diagnostic tool that performs the following functions:

  • Gathers information about a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, or Windows Multipoint Server 2011.

  • Determines if the configurations are set according to the recommended best practices.

  • Reports on important configurations, indicating settings that differ from recommendations.

  • Indicates potential problems in the installed Windows Server Solution product(s).

  • Recommends solutions to potential problems.

For every configuration, Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer provides the following results:

  • Compliance or non-compliance - Compliance results are returned when an instance of server satisfies the conditions of a best practices rule. Non-compliance results are returned when an instance of server does not satisfy the conditions of a best practices rule.

  • Impact of non-compliance.

  • Recommendations on how to fix non-compliance issues.