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Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer is available for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard

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Introduction

Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer is available for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard.

Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 (Windows Server Solutions BPA) is a diagnostic tool that is built on the Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (MBCA) technology. Windows Server Solutions BPA scans a computer that is running one of the following operating systems and then compares the existing server settings to a predefined set of recommended best practices:

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials
Windows Multipoint Server 2011 Standard
Windows Multipoint Server 2011 Premium

Windows Server Solutions BPA performs the following tasks:

Collects information about a server
Determines whether the server settings comply with a set of best practices that we recommend
Provides a report of the scan results that identifies differences between the server settings and the recommended best practices
Identifies conditions that may cause problems with the server
Recommends solutions to potential problems

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Update information

Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must be running Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard.

Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (MBCA) 2.0 is required for Windows Server Solutions BPA. If you do not have MBCA 2.0 installed, this update will install MBCA 2.0 automatically.

For more information about MBCA 2.0, go to the following Microsoft website:

General information about MBCA 2.0

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=188529)

Registry information

To use the update in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace a previously released update.

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You can start a BPA scan by logging on to a local server or by logging on to the server from a remote computer. A schedule task will be created to run all the BPA rules during the middle of the night and to present the results on the admin console.

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824684/ )

Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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