Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Tool for IT Professionals

I'd like to introduce one useful tool for novice IT Professionals.

It's Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA).

This tool can scan and analyze for your single or multiple system and generate report for you to fix.

This tool can scan and analyze...
- Security Updates
- Administrative Vulnerabilities
- Weak passwords
- IIS administrative vulnerabilities
- SQL administrative vulnerabilities

Currently this tool can support Windows XP to Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems except Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows RT when I am writing this post.

There got two version available (GUI and Command Base).

You can choose and use what you prefer. I've attached GUI Version download link in the following,

Download MBSA GUI Tool

If you wish to know in more details, you can go and read in below links,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc184924.aspx#office-support

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647642.aspx

May you all be happy.
( Be knowledgeable, pass it on then)

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