Enabling Security Center for Use in Domains

Security Center is an additional security feature available on computers running Windows XP Professional with SP2 or later. Security Center monitors the status of a computer’s security settings for Automatic Updates, virus protection, and Windows Firewall and warns users if these features aren’t configured properly.

Although Security Center is enabled and used automatically in workgroups, by default it is not enabled or configured for Windows XP Professional SP2 computers belonging to domains. To enable Security Center for use in domains, you must enable Turn On Security Center (Domain PCs Only) under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Security Center. Once the affected ...

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