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| 21 Jul '04 - 22:30 | kenneth van surksum Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Build 1218 now available
A new build of Windows Server 2003 SP1 has been released to beta testers this evening. It seems springboard is now becoming a part of Server 2003 finally. There is a major update to the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) in this release. Download: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Build 1218 Login Required
Among the improvements:
* A completely new firewall configuration component.
* SCW is the recommended way of configuring the Windows Firewall on Windows Server Systems.
* Automatic port detection for non-default configurations, multiple instance scenarios, and 3rd Party Applications
* Additional Server Role definitions.
* SCW now contains definitions for over 60 different server roles. Including roles for applications like Exchange, SQL Server, etc.
* Compliance analysis support.
* Allows you to determine whether servers are in compliance with expected policies.
* Complete command line tool support.
* Supports deploying and analyzing security policies remotely en-masse.
New support for:
* IIS-specific settings
* Audit policy settings
* Additional registry values
* Group Policy-based deployment of SCW-generated security policies
* Inclusion of security INF templates.
* Centralized knowledge base repository
* Clustered environments
* Multi-level rollback
A new PSDK and DDK will be made available in the next few days and there is no code coverage build for 1218.