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IBM BigFix Compliance <br>
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Updated CIS Checklist for MS SQL Server 2012 to </span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">fix checklist version v1.4.0</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <br>
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</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">CIS
</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">MS
SQL Server 2012 </span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Benchmark,
V 1.4.0<span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CIS
Checklist for MS SQL Server 2012, site version 6<i><br>
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</i><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><span><span>Updated source version for Fixlets<span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Environment
Setup Task<span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Applicability
Fixlet - SQL Server 2012</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></span></span></p>
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subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard to
enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigFix
Compliance product and you must be using IBM BigFix version 9.2 and later. <span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Forum:<br>
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hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank
you!<br>
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<i> -- The IBM BigFix Compliance team</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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