Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion

Using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer is a powerful tool you can use to check the security settings of multiple computers. As such, it’s the first tool to pull out when verifying the security status of computers on your network.

To use the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, take the following steps:

1.	Download and install the program from the Microsoft Security Web site—http://www.microsoft.com/security.
2.	Launch the program from the Start menu or the Desktop.
3.	Click the Scan A Computer hyperlink to scan a single computer, or click the Scan More Than One Computer link to scan multiple computers.
4.	Specify the IP address or address range of the computers, specify what you want to look for, ...