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BigFix Compliance<br>
 <br>
<b>Title:</b><br>
Updated CIS Checklist for Windows 2016 with bug fixes.</span></p>

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Server 2016 Benchmark, V3.0.0.<br>
<br>
<b>Published Sites:</b></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CIS Checklist for
Windows 2016 MS, site version 20.<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(The site version is
provided for air-gap customers.)</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br>
 <br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Details:</span></b></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:7pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">    </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(L2)
Ensure 'Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections' is set to
'Disabled   - checks have been modified
from L1 to L2. <b>(in CIS Checklist for
Windows Server 2016 MS)</b></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)">To 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 BigFix
version 9.5 and later.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)">If you use custom sites, update your custom
sites accordingly to use the latest content. You can synchronize your content
by using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see  </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(47,47,47)"></span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To know more about the
BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">BigFix Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.bigfix.com%2Fc%2Frelease-announcements%2Fcompliance&data=05%7C01%7Csaidinesh.ck%40hcl.com%7C561d74c2a9f0479ecd2408da2c379e3c%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637870914637851936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IlvU%2B2%2F7%2BEz01WDp19RmD7qYHmab2xdYmNAc1vjsXjM%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com%2Fwikis%2Fhome%3Flang%3Denus%23!%2Fwiki%2FBigFix%2520Wiki%2Fpage%2FSCM%2520Checklists&data=05%7C01%7Csaidinesh.ck%40hcl.com%7C561d74c2a9f0479ecd2408da2c379e3c%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637870914637851936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Lcyek%2B9QGqUIZijVyE81pxZ%2FomguHhtFlFe440xwEUA%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=enus#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">We hope you find this
latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!<br>
 <br>
<i> -- The BigFix Compliance team.</i></span></p></div>