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To do so, type the following command at a command prompt:. The schema and infrastructure operations masters are used to introduce forest and domain-wide schema changes to the forest and its domains that are made by the Windows Server adprep utility. Verify that the domain controller that hosts the schema role and infrastructure role for each domain in the forest reside on live domain controllers and that each role owner has performed inbound replication over all partitions since they were last restarted.

Roles that reside on unhealthy domain controllers should be transferred if possible. Otherwise, they should be seized. Verify that the have performed inbound replication of Active Directory since last booted. For more information about operations masters and their placement, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Examine the event logs on all the domain controllers for problematic events. The event logs must not contain serious event messages that indicate a problem with any of the following processes and components:.

The volume that hosts the Active Directory database file, Ntds. For more information about how to free up additional disk space, see the "Domain Controllers Without Sufficient Disk Space" section of this article. For best results, perform this operation 61 or more days before you upgrade the operating system. This provides the DNS scavenging daemon sufficient time to garbage-collect the aged DNS objects when an offline defragmentation is performed on the Ntds.

If distributed link tracking isn't used, you can disable the DLT Server service on your Windows domain controllers and begin deleting DLT objects from each domain in the forest. For more information, see the "Microsoft Recommendations for distributed link tracking" section of the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Distributed Link Tracking on Windows-based domain controllers.

Make a system state backup of at least two domain controllers in every domain in the forest. You can use the backup to recover all the domains in the forest if the upgrade doesn't work. An attribute becomes "mangled" if "Dup" or other unique characters are added to the beginning of the conflicted attribute name so that objects and attributes in the directory have unique names.

Log on to the console of the schema operations master by using an account that is a member of the Schema Admins security group. Click Start , click Run , type notepad. Copy the following text including the trailing hyphen after "schemaUpdateNow: 1" to Notepad. On the File menu, click Save. In the Save As dialog box, follow these steps:. COM would be:. To identify mangled names, use Ldp. Install Ldp. Record the distinguished name path for the SchemaNamingContext attribute.

For example, for a domain controller in the CORP. Extract the InetOrgPersonFix. From the console of the schema operations master, load the InetOrgPersonFix. Verify that the houseIdentifier, secretary, and labeledURI attributes in the schema naming context are not "mangled" before you install Exchange New Schema objects and attributes like inetOrgPersonThe adprep utility supports two command-line arguments:.

You can upgrade the Windows member servers and computers to Windows Server member computers whenever you want. Promote new Windows Server domain controllers into the domain by using Dcpromo. Even if you run forestprep and domainprep several times, completed operations are performed only one time.

Also, you can add new Windows Server domain controllers to the domain by using Dcpromo. To prepare a Windows forest and domains to accept Windows Server domain controllers, follow these steps first in a lab environment, then in a production environment:. Make sure that you've completed all the operations in the "Forest Inventory" phase with special attention to the following items:. Log on to the console of the schema operations master with an account that is a member of the Schema Admins security group.

Install and configure antivirus software so that the risk to the domain controller is reduced as much as possible and performance is affected as little as possible. The following list contains recommendations to help you configure and install antivirus software on a Windows Server domain controller. Warning We recommend that you apply the following specified configuration to a test system to make sure that in your specific environment it does not introduce unexpected factors or compromise the stability of the system.

The risk from too much scanning is that files are inappropriately flagged as changed. This causes too much replication in Active Directory. If testing verifies that replication is not affected by the following recommendations, you can apply the antivirus software to the production environment. Note Specific recommendations from antivirus software vendors may supersede the recommendations in this article.

Antivirus software must be installed on all domain controllers in the enterprise. Ideally, try to install such software on all other server and client systems that have to interact with the domain controllers. It is optimal to catch the malware at the earliest point, such as at the firewall or at the client system where the malware is introduced. This prevents the malware from ever reaching the infrastructure systems that the clients depend on.

Use a version of antivirus software that is designed to work with Active Directory domain controllers and that uses the correct Application Programming Interfaces APIs to access files on the server. Older versions of most vendor software inappropriately change a file's metadata as the file is scanned. This causes the File Replication Service engine to recognize a file change and therefore schedule the file for replication. Newer versions prevent this problem. For more information, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

Do not use a domain controller to browse the Internet or to perform other activities that may introduce malicious code. We recommend that you minimize the workloads on domain controllers. When possible, avoid using domain controllers in a file server role. This lowers virus-scanning activity on file shares and minimizes performance overhead. The location of these files is specified in the following registr subkey:. Specifically, exclude the following files:. Exclude the Active Directory transaction log files.

Note: When Windows Vista-based computers have this policy setting enabled and they connect to file or print shares on remote servers, it is important that the setting is synchronized with its companion setting, Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications always , on those servers.

For more information about these settings, see the "Microsoft network client and server: Digitally sign communications four related settings " section in Chapter 5 of the Threats and Countermeasures guide. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Enabled'. This policy setting determines whether the SMB redirector will send plaintext passwords during authentication to third-party SMB servers that do not support password encryption.

It is recommended that you disable this policy setting unless there is a strong business case to enable it. If this policy setting is enabled, unencrypted passwords will be allowed across the network. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Disabled'. This policy setting determines the number of renewed, unique passwords that have to be associated with a user account before you can reuse an old password.

The value for this policy setting must be between 0 and 24 passwords. The default value for Windows Vista is 0 passwords, but the default setting in a domain is 24 passwords. To maintain the effectiveness of this policy setting, use the Minimum password age setting to prevent users from repeatedly changing their password.

The recommended state for this setting is: '24 or more password s '. This subcategory reports the results of validation tests on credentials submitted for a user account logon request. These events occur on the computer that is authoritative for the credentials.

For domain accounts, the domain controller is authoritative, whereas for local accounts, the local computer is authoritative. In domain environments, most of the Account Logon events occur in the Security log of the domain controllers that are authoritative for the domain accounts. However, these events can occur on other computers in the organization when local accounts are used to log on.

Events for this subcategory include: - An account was mapped for logon. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Success and Failure'. This subcategory reports when a user logs off from the system. These events occur on the accessed computer. For interactive logons, the generation of these events occurs on the computer that is logged on to. If a network logon takes place to access a share, these events generate on the computer that hosts the accessed resource.

If you configure this setting to No auditing, it is difficult or impossible to determine which user has accessed or attempted to access organization computers. Events for this subcategory include: - An account was logged off.

The recommended state for this setting is: 'Success'. This subcategory reports when a user attempts to log on to the system. Events for this subcategory include: - An account was successfully logged on. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Administrators, Authenticated Users'. This policy setting determines which users or groups have the right to log on as a Terminal Services client.

Remote desktop users require this user right. If your organization uses Remote Assistance as part of its help desk strategy, create a group and assign it this user right through Group Policy. If the help desk in your organization does not use Remote Assistance, assign this user right only to the Administrators group or use the restricted groups feature to ensure that no user accounts are part of the Remote Desktop Users group.

Restrict this user right to the Administrators group, and possibly the Remote Desktop Users group, to prevent unwanted users from gaining access to computers on your network by means of the Remote Assistance feature. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Administrators'. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Administrators, Remote Desktop Users'.

Note 2: The above lists are to be treated as allowlists, which implies that the above principals need not be present for assessment of this recommendation to pass. This policy setting determines which users can create symbolic links. In Windows Vista, existing NTFS file system objects, such as files and folders, can be accessed by referring to a new kind of file system object called a symbolic link.

A symbolic link is a pointer much like a shortcut or. The difference between a shortcut and a symbolic link is that a shortcut only works from within the Windows shell. To other programs and applications, shortcuts are just another file, whereas with symbolic links, the concept of a shortcut is implemented as a feature of the NTFS file system. Symbolic links can potentially expose security vulnerabilities in applications that are not designed to use them.

For this reason, the privilege for creating symbolic links should only be assigned to trusted users. By default, only Administrators can create symbolic links. This policy setting prohibits users from connecting to a computer from across the network, which would allow users to access and potentially modify data remotely.

In high security environments, there should be no need for remote users to access data on a computer. Instead, file sharing should be accomplished through the use of network servers. The recommended state for this setting is to include: 'Guests, Local account'.

The recommended state for this setting is to include: 'Guests, Local account and member of Administrators group'. Caution: Configuring a standalone non-domain-joined server as described above may result in an inability to remotely administer the server. Note: Configuring a member server or standalone server as described above may adversely affect applications that create a local service account and place it in the Administrators group - in which case you must either convert the application to use a domain-hosted service account, or remove Local account and member of Administrators group from this User Right Assignment.

Using a domain-hosted service account is strongly preferred over making an exception to this rule, where possible. This policy setting allows users to change the Trusted for Delegation setting on a computer object in Active Directory. Abuse of this privilege could allow unauthorized users to impersonate other users on the network.

The recommended state for this setting is: 'Administrators' - Level 1 - Member Server. The recommended state for this setting is: 'No One'. This policy setting determines which users can change the auditing options for files and directories and clear the Security log. For environments running Microsoft Exchange Server, the 'Exchange Servers' group must possess this privilege on Domain Controllers to properly function. Given this, DCs granting the 'Exchange Servers' group this privilege do conform with this benchmark.

If the environment does not use Microsoft Exchange Server, then this privilege should be limited to only 'Administrators' on DCs. The recommended state for this setting is: 'Administrators and when Exchange is running in the environment 'Exchange Servers'.

This option is useful if you need to control whether this computer receives unicast responses to its outgoing multicast or broadcast messages. This setting controls whether local administrators are allowed to create local connection rules that apply together with firewall rules configured by Group Policy.

This setting controls whether local administrators are allowed to create local firewall rules that apply together with firewall rules configured by Group Policy. The recommended state for this setting is Yes, this will set the registry value to 1. By selecting this option, no notification is displayed to the user when a program is blocked from receiving inbound connections.

In a server environment, the popups are not useful as the users is not logged in, popups are not necessary and can add confusion for the administrator. Windows Firewall will not display a notification when a program is blocked from receiving inbound connections. Availability of specific Azure Policy guest configuration settings may vary in Azure Government and other national clouds.

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Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Description : This policy enables the automatic learning component of input personalization that includes speech, inking, and typing. Automatic learning enables the collection of speech and handwriting patterns, typing history, contacts, and recent calendar information. It is required for the use of Cortana. Some of this collected information may be stored on the user's OneDrive, in the case of inking and typing; some of the information will be uploaded to Microsoft to personalize speech.

The recommended state for this setting is: Disabled. Description : Disables the lock screen camera toggle switch in PC Settings and prevents a camera from being invoked on the lock screen.

By default, users can enable invocation of an available camera on the lock screen. If you enable this setting, users will no longer be able to enable or disable lock screen camera access in PC Settings, and the camera cannot be invoked on the lock screen. Description : Disables the lock screen slide show settings in PC Settings and prevents a slide show from playing on the lock screen.

By default, users can enable a slide show that will run after they lock the machine. If you enable this setting, users will no longer be able to modify slide show settings in PC Settings, and no slide show will ever start.

Description : This policy setting prevents computers from connecting to both a domain based network and a non-domain based network at the same time. The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled. Description : You can use this procedure to control user's ability to install and configure a network bridge. With LLMNR, queries are sent using multicast over a local network link on a single subnet from a client computer to another client computer on the same subnet that also has LLMNR enabled.

Description : This policy prevents the user from showing account details email address or user name on the sign-in screen. If you enable this policy setting, the user cannot choose to show account details on the sign-in screen. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user may choose to show account details on the sign-in screen. Description : This policy setting allows you to specify which boot-start drivers are initialized based on a classification determined by an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver.

The Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver can return the following classifications for each boot-start driver: - Good: The driver has been signed and has not been tampered with.

It is recommended that you do not allow known bad drivers to be initialized. If you enable this policy setting you will be able to choose which boot-start drivers to initialize the next time the computer is started. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the boot start drivers determined to be Good, Unknown or Bad but Boot Critical are initialized and the initialization of drivers determined to be Bad is skipped. If your malware detection application does not include an Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver or if your Early Launch Antimalware boot-start driver has been disabled, this setting has no effect and all boot-start drivers are initialized.

Description : This policy setting allows you to turn on or turn off Offer Unsolicited Remote Assistance on this computer. Help desk and support personnel will not be able to proactively offer assistance, although they can still respond to user assistance requests. Description : This policy setting allows you to turn on or turn off Solicited Ask for Remote Assistance on this computer.

Description : This policy setting allows you to control whether anyone can interact with available networks UI on the logon screen. If you enable this policy setting, the PC's network connectivity state cannot be changed without signing into Windows.

If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, any user can disconnect the PC from the network or can connect the PC to other available networks without signing into Windows. Description : This policy setting controls whether RPC clients authenticate with the Endpoint Mapper Service when the call they are making contains authentication information.

The Endpoint Mapper Service on computers running Windows NT4 all service packs cannot process authentication information supplied in this manner. If you enable this policy setting, RPC clients will authenticate to the Endpoint Mapper Service for calls that contain authentication information. If you do not configure this policy setting, it remains disabled.

Note: This policy will not be applied until the system is rebooted. You might want to disable this service if you decide to use a third-party time provider. Description : This policy setting determines whether the Windows device is allowed to participate in cross-device experiences continue experiences. Description : This policy setting determines what information is logged in security audit events when a new process has been created. This setting only applies when the Audit Process Creation policy is enabled.

If you enable this policy setting the command line information for every process will be logged in plain text in the security event log as part of the Audit Process Creation event , "a new process has been created," on the workstations and servers on which this policy setting is applied.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the process's command line information will not be included in Audit Process Creation events.

Default: Not configured Note: When this policy setting is enabled, any user with access to read the security events will be able to read the command line arguments for any successfully created process. Command line arguments can contain sensitive or private information such as passwords or user data. Description : This policy setting allows you to prevent app notifications from appearing on the lock screen. Description : This policy setting controls whether the computer can download print driver packages over HTTP.

Description : This policy setting allows you to control whether a domain user can sign in using a convenience PIN. Note: The user's domain password will be cached in the system vault when using this feature. Description : This policy setting determines whether the Guest account is enabled or disabled. The Guest account allows unauthenticated network users to gain access to the system.

Note: This setting will have no impact when applied to the domain controller organizational unit via group policy because domain controllers have no local account database. It can be configured at the domain level via group policy, similar to account lockout and password policy settings.

Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only CCE Description : This policy setting determines whether local accounts that are not password protected can be used to log on from locations other than the physical computer console. If you enable this policy setting, local accounts that have blank passwords will not be able to log on to the network from remote client computers.

Such accounts will only be able to log on at the keyboard of the computer. Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings Windows Vista or later to override audit policy category settings CCE Description : This policy setting allows administrators to enable the more precise auditing capabilities present in Windows Vista.

The Audit Policy settings available in Windows Server Active Directory do not yet contain settings for managing the new auditing subcategories. To properly apply the auditing policies prescribed in this baseline, the Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings Windows Vista or later to override audit policy category settings setting needs to be configured to Enabled.

Audit: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits CCE Description : This policy setting determines whether the system shuts down if it is unable to log Security events. Microsoft has chosen to meet this requirement by halting the system and displaying a stop message if the auditing system experiences a failure. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 8 years, 10 months ago. Active 8 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 2k times. Improve this question. Add a comment.

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