Best Practices Analyzer Tools
Many years ago, Microsoft introduced Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) tools for server products such as SQL Server and Exchange. The tools enabled IT professionals to conduct a scan against a product to ensure it was configured based on industry best practices. For many years, IT professionals wanted a similar tool to scan their Windows infrastructure; however, one did not exist. Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a BPA tool, which is included with all editions of Windows Server 2012 except for Server Core. When scanning server roles to find best-practice violations, the BPA tool measures a server role’s compliance based on eight different rule categories. The rule categories are Security, Performance, Configuration, ...
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