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BigFix Compliance</span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Updated </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">CIS Checklist for MS
SQL Server 2016</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CIS Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Benchmark,
V1.4.0</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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Sites:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">CIS Checklist for MS SQL Server
2016</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, site
version 15</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(The site version is provided for
air-gap customers).</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Total Updated Fixlets:44</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Total Fixlets in Site: 44</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This checklist applies to AAG and
Failover Clusters. </span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The code has been
optimized to identify and bypass non-running instances.</span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Applicability Fixlet now includes additional validation, ensuring
that the Environment Setup Task log file exists, is not older than 90 days, and
that results files are present. This ensures Fixlets are reported as Not
Applicable and that the Measured Value (MV) correctly indicates that the
Environment Setup Task has not been executed</span><span lang="EN"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Both
analysis and remediation checks are included.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Some
of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable
customization for compliance evaluation. Note that parameterization and
remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.</span></p>

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to take:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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 10 and later.</span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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<br>
</span><span lang="EN" 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:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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information:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
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" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BigFix
Forum:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BigFix
Compliance SCM Checklists:<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"><a href="https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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and effective. Thank you!<br>
<i>– The BigFix Compliance team</i></span></p></div>